Non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, obesity, and metabolic syndrome are rising globally, while infectious diseases, ...

Sepsis is a leading global cause of hospital deaths, occurring when the body's response to infection damages tissue and ...

Prithi (name changed to protect privacy) lay restless on the floor of her dwelling in a northern Indian village feeling like she was being devoured from the inside. The gnawing hunger that had plagued ...

Vaccination is one of the greatest achievements in immunology and medicine, nearly eradicating many infectious diseases that ...

Tuberculosis bacteria survive by hiding in our immune cells. In her PhD research, biologist Salomé Muñoz Sánchez explores how ...

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), with collaborators from the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), have discovered how a key protein in the tuberculosis bacterium helps ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which causes the potentially fatal respiratory infection of the same name, was found to use a system known as PrrAB to ...

Across Europe, tuberculosis (TB) is once again raising alarm, particularly the extensively drug-resistant form (XDR-TB), which is proving as deadly as before antibiotics were discovered. A large ...

Dr. Stephen Carpenter has always been interested in learning about the pathogenesis of disease, or how a disease develops. While in his first year of clinical medicine residency at NYU Langone Health, ...

lasma metabolomic analysis in active tuberculosis patients and healthy controls. Cerebral tuberculosis (CTB), a severe and often fatal form of central nervous system (CNS) tuberculosis, poses ...

ABSTRACT: Introduction: Bovine tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium bovis (M. bovis) and human TB by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis). The difference in lung ...