In Germany, it is often overlooked that diseases once thought to be defeated, like tuberculosis, still exist and that the number of cases has recently increased. Worldwide, about a quarter of the ...

Pathogen's perspective Tuberculosis is a respiratory disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, a bacterium that most commonly affects the lungs and is transmitted through droplets that an ...

The computer model – called EGRIN 2.0 – helps scientists see how Mtb’s genes work together and are affected by their environment. EGRIN 2.0 identified a signaling system called MtrA that helps the ...

TB Pathogen Breaks the Rules "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 ...

Tuberculosis (TB), an ancient and notoriously difficult disease to treat, has killed millions through the course of human history; and the antibiotics that have been used to fight the disease in ...

The findings may also help inform new prevention and treatment approaches for tuberculosis, a wily pathogen that, each year, sickens more than 10 million people and causes more than a million ...

Unfortunately, TB research is underfunded and corners get cut on biosafety while pursuing the next big idea. A renewed commitment to adequately appreciating the risks of some pathogen research would ...

More information: Exposure to Mycobacterium remodels alveolar macrophages and the early innate response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection, PLoS Pathogens (2024).

Tuberculosis is an infectious bacterial disease that has co-evolved with humans for millenia and is “arguably the most successful human bacterial pathogen,” the authors wrote.

Narva Hospital reported that during routine testing, traces of a TB pathogen were incidentally detected in samples taken from bronchoscopes. As a result, three patients who had recently undergone lung ...