Every year, 10 million people contract tuberculosis (TB), a disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), and approximately 1.5 million patients succumb to the disease. Treatment ...

Tuberculosis (TB), a bacterial infection that primarily affects the lungs, has long been considered rare in the U.S. Recently, the Kansas City metro area reported a spike in TB, prompting several ...

Tuberculosis is a serious global health threat that infected more than 10 million people in 2022. Spread through the air and ...

Infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb ... Surrounding the core are layers of epithelioid macrophages and multinucleated giant cells, encapsulated by a layer of lymphocytes. The outermost ...

5Microbiological Diagnostic Unit Public Health Laboratory, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Melbourne at The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, ...

Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is an aggressive cancer, associated with poor prognosis. We assessed the feasibility of patient-derived cell cultures to serve as an ex vivo model of MPM.

Objectives Malnutrition is associated with a twofold higher risk of dying in patients with tuberculosis (TB) and considered an important potentially reversible risk factor for failure of TB treatment.

Rationale Pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) can cause post-TB lung disease (PTLD) associated with respiratory symptoms, spirometric and radiological abnormalities. Understanding of the predictors and ...

The presentation is similar to that of a painful lesion, and the differential diagnosis includes squamous cell carcinoma, testicular tumors, leishmaniasis, syphilis, tuberculosis, orchiepidymitis.

Epitheloid cells in the granuloma cause injury to the arterial wall by secreting matrix metalloproteinases and reactive oxygen and nitrogen intermediates. Reparative process leads to intimal ...

Health officials are raising the alarm over a large and ongoing tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in Kansas. According to data from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE), the cases have ...

A colorized X-ray of a patient's chest shows lesions (tubercles, pink) caused by tuberculosis (TB) consisting of infected dead tissue. Treatment for the highly contagious disease requires ...