An enzymatic cocktail can kill a variety of mycobacterial species of bacteria, including those that cause tuberculosis. With resistance to chemical antibiotics on the rise, the world needs ...

Study: First isolation of Mycobacterium saskatchewanense from medical devices. Image Credit: Kateryna Kon/Shutterstock.com Background Non-tuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) species are acid-fast ...

Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC). This includes two related species: mycobacterium avium and mycobacterium intracellulare. MAC is by far the most common type of NTM in the U.S.

Study: 4,000-year-old Mycobacterium lepromatosis genomes from Chile reveal long establishment of Hansen’s disease in the Americas. Image Credit: Kateryna Kon / Shutterstock In a recent study ...

A new study published in Microbiology Spectrum, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology, shows that an enzymatic cocktail can kill a variety of mycobacterial species of bacteria ...