The goal of the study is to investigate host genetic and immunologic predictors of resistance to M. tuberculosis infection and progression from latent M. tuberculosis infection to active tuberculosis ...

Mycobacterial diseases, including tuberculosis (TB), leprosy, and non-tuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) infections, continue to impose a substantial global ...

lasma metabolomic analysis in active tuberculosis patients and healthy controls. Cerebral tuberculosis (CTB), a severe and often fatal form of central nervous system (CNS) tuberculosis, poses ...

New observations of the early stages of tuberculosis infection may turn scientists' understanding of the bug's pathogenesis on its head: clumps of immune cells, called granulomas, long thought to ...

Psychiatry has struggled to enter the precision medicine era. But through a mix of innovations and bootstrapping, progress is coming to the field. Scientists are ...

Mammalian hosts coordinate various cell death pathways as part of the immune defense system against pathogens including Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), which causes tuberculosis featuring lung ...

Respiratory medicine is deeply connected to social and structural determinants of health in terms of the diseases that we try to prevent and we treat. I think that connection to people's lives and ...

In 2021, a global tuberculosis vaccine research and development roadmap proposed a series of actions to accelerate the development of new, effective, and affordable vaccines that are urgently needed ...

A team of United States-based scientists recently conducted a study to evaluate the effect of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection on the pathogenesis of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus ...