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.

Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of the respiratory disease tuberculosis, caused 1.6 million deaths in 2021. Tuberculosis, despite being preventable and curable, is responsible for the ...

Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are known as atypical mycobacteria. That means they’re related to tuberculosis, but they don’t cause the same disease. In fact, NTM are generally harmless. That’s a ...

Mycobacterium abscessus (MAB) is a species of nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) and a major causative pathogen of pulmonary diseases especially in patients with cystic fibrosis. MAB infection is ...

MicuRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ("MicuRx"), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing novel anti-infective therapies for drug-resistant bacterial infections, recently announced ...

In a classic example of scientific problem solving, scientists from the Hackensack Meridian Center for Discovery and Innovation (CDI) and colleagues have published a paper introducing a promising new ...

Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC), a type of nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM), lives all around us. You’ll find these germs in dirt, dust, and drinking water. They’re also common in natural sources ...

The mycobacteria that typically cause lung tuberculosis (TB) can also cause gastrointestinal (GI) TB. This condition typically requires prompt treatment with anti-tuberculous drugs. GI TB can involve ...

A team of United States-based scientists recently conducted a study to evaluate the effect of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection on the pathogenesis of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus ...

In 1654, Rembrandt painted a woman, in Amsterdam, bathing in a stream. As she lifts her nightdress above her knees and treads deeper, the woman is stepping from one world into another. Among art ...

An immunocompetent 52-year-old man presented with lesions and inflammation on his left arm after lacerating his index finger while cleaning a fish tank (Figure 1). The lesions appeared at the ...