Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Controlling the spread of tuberculosis in geographic areas with high tuberculosis rates could greatly reduce ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is the second most common cause of death worldwide by an infectious pathogen (after Covid-19), but many aspects of its long history with humans remain controversial. Researchers ...

Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the world’s deadliest infectious diseases, affecting millions annually despite being preventable and curable. Understanding how TB spreads is crucial for both ...

NEW YORK, June 14 (Praxis Press) Despite improvements in tuberculosis (TB) control during the past decade, Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission continues to occur in the United States. Chin and ...

Person-to-person transmission of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis, not the development of new resistance, may be the engine driving the spread of disease in South Africa, according to the ...

Scientists studying the role of room ventilation in tuberculosis transmission found that students in Cape Town, South Africa, spend almost 60 percent of their day in poorly ventilated rooms, at risk ...

The number of human tuberculosis (TB) cases that are due to transmission from animals, as opposed to human-to-human transmission, may be much higher than previously estimated, according to an ...

Aug. 3, 2004 — Even brief tuberculosis exposure may cause transmission, according to the results of a study published in the August issue of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care ...

British health officials announced today that two people have developed active tuberculosis (TB) after interacting with TB-infected cats, reports The Guardian. Two other humans were also infected, but ...

The tuberculosis notification rates in South Africa are as high today as they were reported in the early 1900s. When you consider our population and our rates of new TB cases per year, then South ...