A symptom of COVID is the loss of taste or smell. Tuberculosis has a longer incubation period, and the symptoms have a much ...

Emerging drug-resistant strains are posing significant challenges to the global fight against tuberculosis (TB) and it is a critical task to detect treatment failure as early as possible.

People with latent infections cannot spread TB bacteria to others, but if the bacteria becomes active, latent infection can ...

A key focus of the campaign is studying TB bacteria’s resistance to drugs like rifampicin, a crucial component in treatment. Telangana has 435 Designated Microscopy Centres (DMCs) and 130 NAAT ...

As Kansas deals with one of the largest tuberculous outbreaks in the nation since the 1950s, Californians may be wondering ...

People with latent infections cannot spread TB bacteria to others, but if the bacteria becomes active, latent infection can develop into TB disease. “TB is an infectious disease that most often ...

Hyderabad: The bacterium that causes tuberculosis disease, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, has probably co-evolved with humans for at least 40,000 years. While the earliest known record of the ...

Tuberculosis (TB), a bacterial infection that primarily affects the lungs, has long been considered rare in the U.S. Recently, the Kansas City metro area reported a spike in TB, prompting several ...