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 ...

Kansas is dealing with one of the largest outbreaks of tuberculosis recorded in a single year in the United States since the 1950s, state health officials say. The outbreak in the Kansas City area ...

These lesser known “cousins” of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) were once thought to be harmless environmental saprophytics and only dangerous to individuals with defective lung structure or the ...

As we see a great number of undiagnosed and untreated tuberculosis cases due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is possible that these patients will more frequently experience pulmonary sequelae due to ...

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

This panel was called Lung-CLiP, which stands for "lung cancer likelihood in plasma." The test was able to detect between 40% and 70% of early stage lung cancers. While the test is less sensitive than ...

Tuberculosis, or TB, is a bacterial infection that primarily affects the lungs but can also spread to other parts of the body. It;s transmitted through the air when someone with TB coughs ...

Health officials are raising the alarm over a large and ongoing tuberculosis (TB ... are released when a person with active TB in their lungs speaks, sings or coughs. Once in the body, the ...

vaccine against pulmonary TB; the low overall risk of infection with M. tuberculosis in the United States; and the vaccine’s interference with the interpretation of the TB skin test.” ...