Machine learning model helps identify resistance to key antibiotics for treating tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB) continues to be one of the top ten leading causes of death worldwide with more than 1.3 million ...
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New blood test can help doctors diagnose tuberculosis and monitor treatment
Researchers at Tulane University School of Medicine have developed a new highly sensitive blood test for tuberculosis (TB) that screens ...
New antibiotics could tackle drug-resistant tuberculosis bacteria
Infection by Mycobacterium tuberculosis kills 1.5 million people worldwide every year. Antibiotics to treat TB exist, but in recent years, ...
Amid scary headlines about disease, important progress against tuberculosis
As headlines focus on COVID-19 and, now, monkeypox, tuberculosis remains one of the great scourges of infectious disease around the ...
Dynamics of adaptive immunity in tuberculosis uncovered
PITTSBURGH, May 17, 2022 – Unlike other infectious diseases that affect the lungs, the immune response to fight tuberculosis (TB) ...
A gene in tuberculosis bacteria is found essential for siderophore secretion and virulence
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Lei Zhang, Ph.D., and Michael Niederweis, Ph.D., of the University of Alabama at Birmingham have made what ...
SDSU researchers identify rare genetic markers of drug-resistant tuberculosis
To many, tuberculosis (TB) may seem like a disease from a bygone era. But it still claims more than one ...
Usefulness of monitoring IgG against Antigen-85b for prediction of tuberculosis development from latency: From an elephant tuberculosis analysis
Niigata, Japan - Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb); the leading cause of human death ...
New details behind the body’s response to tuberculosis could lead to a more effective vaccine
BOSTON – More than 1.7 billion people—or a quarter of the world’s population—are infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterial strain ...
Body’s response to different strains of tuberculosis could affect transmission
Two strains of the bacterium causing tuberculosis have only minor genetic differences but attack the lungs in completely different fashion, ...
NIH funds new tuberculosis research advancement centers
WHAT: The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, today announced four ...
Researchers identify two distinct tuberculosis subtypes – implications for personalized therapy
A recent study published by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital, in collaboration with the German ...
Tuberculosis infection protects mice from developing COVID-19
In mice, the immune response mounted against tuberculosis prevents them from developing COVID-19, according to a new study by Richard ...
Tuberculosis induces premature cellular aging
Tuberculosis (TB) is a potentially serious infectious disease caused by a type of bacterium called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The bacteria usually ...
Exploring ancient tuberculosis transmission chains
Nearly one quarter of the world’s population is suspected to have been exposed to the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis, a ...
Treatment length reduced for children with tuberculosis
A UCL-led international trial exploring the effectiveness of tuberculosis (TB) treatment in children has led to a change in the ...
Tuberculosis vaccine could assist future COVID-19 vaccine development
Despite unprecedented efforts to develop COVID-19 vaccines in record time amid the global pandemic, SARS-CoV-2 continues to spread rapidly with the emergence ...
Researchers identify a promising new target for tuberculosis treatment
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the hardy bacterial species that causes tuberculosis (TB), has an unexpected vulnerability that future drugs may be ...
How the pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis secretes and trafficks its only known exotoxin
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Six years ago, Michael Niederweis, Ph.D., described the first known toxin of the deadly pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis ...
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Immune molecules from a llama could provide protection against a vast array of SARS-like viruses including COVID-19, researchers say
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Human urine-derived stem cells have robust regenerative potential
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