A new study in Calgary hospitals highlights the need to optimise latent tuberculosis testing prior to patient hospitalisation ...

A novel, portable assay can deliver TB diagnoses in under an hour at low cost using samples of blood, saliva, or sputum, ...

Studies have demonstrated that the presence of this cavitation activity is crucial for stone subdivision; however, its exact role in the comminution process remains somewhat weakly defined, in part ...

School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK Correspondence to Dr M E Kruijshaar, Tuberculosis Section, Respiratory and Systemic Infections Department, Centre ...

Conclusions Human TB lesions are severely hypoxic and M.tb drives HIF-1α accumulation, synergistically increasing collagenase activity which will lead to lung destruction and cavitation. This study ...