People who fall sick with drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) face daunting odds. Only about two in three survive the illness, unlike people with drug-sensitive TB, of whom more than 90 percent survive.

image: Innate (green) and adaptive (red and white) immune cells in a lung surround and kill the bacteria that cause tuberculosis. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis ...

More than 10 million people are sickened by tuberculosis (TB) globally each year, resulting in 1.5 million deaths. Yet, as many as two billion people are infected with Mycobaterium tuberculosis, the ...

Tuberculosis (TB), caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), results in 1.5 million deaths every year, but as many as two billion people may be infected with Mtb and yet remain ...

PITTSBURGH, Oct.22 – Immunologists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC and the have found a unique quirk in the way the immune system fends ...

A new study, published in Nature Immunology, proposes a different approach for finding new TB vaccines, a century after the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) tuberculosis vaccine was first administered ...

Scientists have shown how a parasitic worm infection common in the developing world increases susceptibility to tuberculosis. The study demonstrated that treating the parasite reduces lung damage seen ...

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