Global efforts to protect children against diseases including measles, polio and tuberculosis have stalled since 2010, ...

Researchers recently discovered that, in pulmonary diseases, M. abscessus suppresses immune responses during coinfection with ...

The rare bacteria, Mycobacterium abscessus, can sometimes cause hospital-acquired infections, often from contaminated water. But the number of times hospitalized patients had tested positive for ...

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

The discovery of Mycobacterium lepromatosis suggests leprosy was present in the Americas long before Europeans, altering the ...

Dental patients can be at risk of contracting nontuberculous mycobacteria or other infections from dental waterlines that have a high amount of bacteria in their water supple, the CDC warns.

Mycobacterium avium complex often can be cured. ... The bacteria may have developed resistance to treatment. Some studies found that infection with MAC recurs up to 50% of the time.

Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) is a group of bacteria related to tuberculosis. These germs are very common in food, water, and soil. Almost everyone has them in their bodies. When you have a ...

The assay utilized ATCC standards of Quantitative Genomic DNA from Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain H37Ra (ATCC 25177DQ) and Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis strain K-10 (ATCC BAA-968D).