Interpreters, peer navigators, educational materials, and text message reminders can improve the yield and cost-effectiveness of screening and treatment for tuberculosis infection among migrants.

Scientists have made a discovery that helps explain why humans and animals are so susceptible to contracting tuberculosis(TB) – and it involves the bacteria harnessing part of the immune system meant ...

Prescribing information and clinical guidelines showed gaps in TB screening protocols for many recently approved targeted ...

Scientists from the University of Cape Town's (UCT) Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine (IDM) have contributed to an international study that shed new light on why humans and ...

Many people with tuberculosis stay in the latent infection stage, but some develop the active disease. Both stages are treatable. Tuberculosis (TB) is a bacterial infection that usually affects the ...

Tuberculosis remains one of the world’s most persistent infectious diseases, affecting millions annually despite significant medical advances. This bacterial infection primarily targets the lungs but ...

An international team co-led by the University of Exeter discovered that Mycobacterium tuberculosis hijacks the immune ...

A new clinical decision support system, "TBorNotTB," helps streamline airborne infection isolation decisions, reducing workload while maintaining TB detection accuracy. Study: TB or not TB?

A Broward high school and Miami’s federal detention center have each confirmed an active case of tuberculosis, one of the deadliest, but treatable, infectious diseases in the world. The bacterial ...

Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) revaccination didn't help prevent sustained Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in initially uninfected adolescents without HIV in a randomized trial from South Africa.