This creates “caves” that trap Mycobacterium tuberculosis, known as granulomas. “[Granulomas] change over time, but they’re independent. So the environment that the bacteria are in in one granuloma ...

Coughing, with blood-tinged sputum (phlegm that comes from deep inside the lungs); fever, weight loss and night sweats are ...

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Panel A shows the time course of decline of viable Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a sputum ... some bacilli are sequestered in thick-walled granulomas, where antibiotics are not able to reach ...

Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) revaccination is not efficacious for preventing sustained Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection, ...

Researchers have identified a compound that can fight against all the strains of the drug-resistant Mycobacterium ...