A new study uncovers vulnerabilities in drug-resistant TB, offering hope for improved treatments. Rutgers Health research has uncovered why a relatively new antibiotic for tuberculosis (TB) works ...

More than 10 million people fall sick with tuberculosis (TB) every year. The disease remains the world’s biggest infectious disease killers with an estimated 1.25 million annual deaths. The disease is ...

There were an estimated 490,000 new cases of drug-resistant TB in 2016. Tuberculosis, a lung disease most often transmitted by breathing infected particles in the air, is the ninth leading cause of ...

Patients who have drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) have a similar microbiological response to bedaquiline-based second-line medications as patients with drug-sensitive TB taking first-line regimens, ...

An extensive sample of patients revealed new drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis particularly in Eastern Europe. These strains could spread to the EU. The evolution and contagion methods of the ...

An international research team headed by scientists at the University of British Columbia has demonstrated how a novel semi-synthetic compound derived from sanguinarine (SG), an alkaloid extracted ...

A recent international study found alarmingly high levels drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis (TB) in a number of countries. Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ...

Tuberculosis remains one of the top infectious disease killers worldwide, a challenge amplified by drug-resistant forms of the disease. Now, in a major step forward, an international clinical trial ...

Louisiana is suing Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and various agencies after state officials said an undocumented Chinese immigrant may have exposed hundreds of people to a “rare, ...