She and colleagues have now identified the pathogen as M. mungi sp. nov., a previously unidentified bacteria species from the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex. A pathogen is any living agent ...

An emerging strain of tuberculosis (TB), closely related to human TB, has been killing banded mongoose in Northern Botswana in significant numbers. This novel pathogen, Mycobacterium mungi, did ...

There is no highly effective vaccine against tuberculosis (TB), which remains an infection of global concern. Charles ...

It traces the spread of TB from the U.S. and Europe in the 19th ... With antibiotic overuse came antibiotic resistance as pathogens learned to fight off the cures. The result is what Krishnan ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates nearly 13 million people in the U.S. have “latent TB infection.

But it is important to be alert to research that has the potential to create new superbug versions of such pathogens. To illustrate, tuberculosis (TB) is already a pandemic with about a quarter of the ...

And unlike other bacteria– your E. coli, salmonella that everybody hears about– this mycobacterium tuberculosis– this is the pathogen that causes TB– has this ability to quickly adapt to treatment, ...

At MIT, Bourouiba studies the physics of fluids and the ways in which droplet dynamics can spread particles and pathogens. She teamed up with Nathan, who studies tuberculosis, and the genes that ...

The M. tuberculosis bacterium that causes TB is an airborne pathogen, meaning it can spread through the air in tiny droplets of saliva. If you inhale these pathogens, you could acquire a TB infection.

"The most basic thing you can study in bacteria is how they grow and divide, yet our study reveals that the TB pathogen is playing by a completely different set of rules compared to easier-to ...

Many mistakenly believe this pathogen was eradicated decades ago ... the U.S. deprioritizes international funding to combat it. Tuberculosis has taken the lives of notable figures such as Eleanor ...