Tuberculosis is the world's leading infectious cause of death, killing more than one million people each year. When the ...

Millions of people die as a direct result of bacterial infections — especially when the bacteria have developed a resistance ...

A new antibiotic for tuberculosis (TB ... help us design new molecules that work better and prevent bacteria from becoming resistant,” said Jason Yang, assistant professor at the medical ...

Despite longstanding reliance on sputum smear microscopy, culture methods, and chest X-rays, conventional TB diagnostics ...

These findings, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, are set to transform how we approach the treatment of drug-resistant TB. A close-up of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacteria ...

Beyond TB, the researchers believe the genomics platform utilized in this study could be applied to other resistant bacteria to identify novel drug targets. “Our next steps are to apply this approach ...

On World TB Day in March 2024, the he­­alth ministry announced grim statistics: newly notified cases increased from 11,050 in ...

Pus, strep throat, and even tuberculosis—most infectious diseases are characterized by a cluster of pathogenic bacteria that ...

Scientists fighting the ever-growing threat posed by antibiotic-resistant 'superbugs' are increasingly confident that they ...

Anyone who believes they were exposed to rifampin-resistant TB — a drug that treats Tuberculosis ... TB is transmitted from person-to-person through bacteria that is inhaled after an infected ...

A multinational research team, including Professor David W Graham from Durham University's Biosciences Department, have helped uncover a worrying new effect of climate change—the rise of antibiotic ...