Researchers at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) have developed a promising new substance for targeting ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the oldest and deadliest infectious diseases we know. It commonly impacts the lungs, but can also affect other areas of the body like the spine, brain or kidneys.

Using precise molecular techniques, including single-cell RNA sequencing, the team showed that this process is mediated in part by the effects of CD4 T cells on CD8 T cells – another subset of white ...

The bacterium that causes TB can hide in liver cells called hepatocytes, and reprogram their metabolism for its own benefit.

To uncover whether these DURTs were associated with resistance to TB following exposure, the researchers utilized their cohort of household contacts in Uganda. They chose a sub cohort of RSTRs and ...

There is no highly effective vaccine against tuberculosis (TB), which remains an infection of global concern. Charles Kyriakos Vorkas, MD, an infectious diseases physician-scientist at the Renaissance ...

Worldwide, approximately 2 million children younger than 15 years of age are infected with multidrug-resistant (MDR) Mycobacterium tuberculosis, with MDR tuberculosis developing in approximately ...