Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) and Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) are two distinct types of bacteria that can cause infections in the lungs and other parts of the body. Belonging to the same ...

Researchers at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences have developed a new inhalable form of tuberculosis (TB) treatment that could significantly reduce the burden of current therapy.

An analysis of fungi collected from peat bogs has identified several species that produce substances toxic to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the bacterium that causes tuberculosis in humans. The ...

IISc said this discovery could help develop interventions that prevent tuberculosis bacteria from infecting their hosts.

San Francisco public health officials issued a health advisory after identifying a tuberculosis outbreak in a private ...

Though tuberculosis is rare in the United States as compared to developing countries, the region has some of the highest ...

The U.S. House on Monday unanimously adopted legislation prompted by the death last year of a 57-year-old northern Michigan woman who died from tuberculosis linked to contaminated bone graft material ...