Bacille Calmette-Guérin revaccination shows no efficacy in preventing sustained Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection compared with placebo in adolescents in a phase 2b study.

Current tuberculosis infection tests struggle to detect the disease in those with HIV. A common co-infection, HIV can hide TB ...

Unfortunately for those interested in the popular trend, many of these explorations are considered trespassing and carry ...

BCG therapy—the gold standard treatment for non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC), where the cancer has not penetrated ...

How accurate are low-complexity manual nucleic acid amplification tests for detecting pulmonary tuberculosis in children? - There is limited evidence that LC-mNAATs can correctly identify pulmonary ...

Extreme pain, known as a pain crisis, is one of the hallmark symptoms of SCD. With frequent hospitalizations, chronic pain ...

An off-the-shelf stem cell therapy for type 1 diabetes continues to show positive results, according to a new study.

We included studies that enroled children under 10 years of age with presumptive pulmonary tuberculosis, and provided data to assess the accuracy of parallel testing and at least one of the component ...

This antibiotic resistance can occur through many routes, one of which is efflux pumps. "These are essentially little pumps that sit in the cell membrane and pump molecules from inside the cell to ...

Some tuberculosis researchers had hypothesized that the bacterial cells shed ManLAM once inside a host cell, and that those free glycans then interact with the host immune system. However, the MIT ...

Feb. 16, 2021 — Researchers may have found a new pathway to treat and control tuberculosis (TB), the disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). Using single-cell RNA sequencing ...

Moreover, the Aldridge Lab used time-lapse, single-cell imaging to discover that the two poles of Mycobacterium tuberculosis grow at different rates. This means that one end will end up growing faster ...