tuberculosis

The information we’ve gathered showed us that warthogs can be used as disease sentinels, avoiding the need to resort to testing valuable or endangered animals.

A new facility located in a congested community with high tuberculosis rates brings basic science and cutting edge techniques into the heart of disease circulation.

The BMJ inquiry finds that researchers presented only select results from animal experiments when applying for funding and approval for human trials.

The new test could improve upon two current methods to diagnose tuberculosis—a skin test or culturing bacteria from saliva, both of which take days.

Research efforts aim to obviate the need for vaccine refrigeration.

Researchers in the U.K. report that badgers may be passing tuberculosis to farm animals not through direct contact, as was previously suspected, but through exposure to urine and feces.

Eighteenth-century DNA sequences yield insights into the history of tuberculosis infections.

Take a trip to the mummy museum in Vác, Hungary, to see the human remains that helped researchers learn more about the origins of tuberculosis in Europe.

Scientists add a mouse gene to the cow genome to ward off bovine tuberculosis.

Genomic analysis of a multidrug-resistant lineage pinpoints historical correlations with human events.

Researchers have isolated a new kind of antibiotic from a previously unknown and uncultured bacterial genus.  

Alan Aderem earned his PhD while under house arrest for protesting apartheid in South Africa. His early political involvement has guided his scientific focus, encouraging fellow systems biologists to study immunology and infectious diseases.

Pathogen traces recovered from Peruvian mummies suggest tuberculosis-causing bacteria rode from Africa to South America in pinnipeds.

A new report from the World Health Organization finds that tuberculosis has infected hundreds of thousands more people around the world than was estimated a year ago.

Government-commissioned analyses obtained by the media suggest that the UK badger culls that began last year were ineffective and inhumane.

Tuberculosis is exquisitely adapted to the human body. Researchers need a new game plan for beating it.

A vaccine developed to ward off tuberculosis may help prevent symptoms of multiple sclerosis, according to a new study.

At least three-quarters of drug-resistant tuberculosis cases have not been detected, according to the World Health Organization.  

Five years after receiving a tissue-engineered airway, the 30-year-old Colombian patient is doing well, having experienced no immunological complications associated with the procedure.

New rapid tests for extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis appear highly accurate.