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An experimental drug now in clinical trials as a cancer treatment could help boost the power of first-line tuberculosis (TB) ...
In a Johns Hopkins Children’s Center study, the addition of navitoclax to the standard TB treatment significantly increased ...
Dr. Sabine Ehrt, an internationally renowned leader in tuberculosis research, has been appointed chair of the Department of ...
which are coated with membranes of preactivated macrophages to target granulomas in Mycobacterium tuberculosis-infected mice and eradicate the infection through irradiation with a 1,064 nm laser.
Over 90% of new TB cases occur in low- and middle-income countries. This point-of-care device is the first to detect ...
Tulane University scientists have developed a new artificial intelligence-based method to more accurately detect antibiotic resistance in deadly bacteria such as tuberculosis and staph. The ...
Despite over a century of research, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the causative agent of tuberculosis ... antibodies and Fc receptors expressed on macrophages, neutrophils, dendritic cells, ...
Tuberculosis, also known as TB, is a bacterial infection that primarily affects a person's lungs. Its symptoms vary widely depending on how the slow-growing mycobacterium that causes the infection ...
Tuberculosis (TB) is a highly infectious bacterial disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. It primarily targets the lungs and spreads through airborne droplets when an infected individual coughs ...
When health workers stopped visiting her home in Pakistan to administer tuberculosis medication, Ratna Jamni began dragging herself to a clinic “step by painful step, when even standing feels ...
Getty Kansas has an outbreak of two diseases — measles and tuberculosis — as lawmakers loosen vaccine requirements for children. In a 103-15 vote on March 20, the Kansas House of ...
In Nigeria’s teeming urban centres and far-flung villages, tuberculosis (TB) persists as a quiet scourge, claiming lives with a stealth that belies its lethality. Often overshadowed by flashier ...