Tuberculosis (TB) is a contagious infection usually affecting the lungs, caused by the pathogenic bacteria called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. It is a well-known and stigmatised major public health ...

Cases of tuberculosis (TB) — an illness that kills more people than any other infectious disease — rose in the U.S. during 2022, per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). And some ...

The routine use of steroids to treat tuberculosis may help reduce deaths from all types of the disease, according to a new review of existing research. The routine use of steroids to treat ...

Tuberculosis (TB) in the throat is a rare type of TB that affects the larynx. It’s often misdiagnosed but has symptoms such as hoarseness and painful swallowing. If treated promptly, it can be fully ...

Infants who received BCG [bacille Calmette-Guérin] vaccination at birth had protection against tuberculosis into early childhood, but that protection largely disappeared in only a few years, according ...

People in South Africa are suffering from the deadliest type of tuberculosis (TB), and researchers say treatment failure is not to blame. XDR-TB is a rare but extremely fatal type of tuberculosis that ...