Almost forgotten today, tuberculosis (TB) is still one of the deadliest infectious diseases in the world. In an interview with Coliquio, Ronald D. Gerste, MD, PhD, an ophthalmologist and historian, ...

New observations of the early stages of tuberculosis infection may turn scientists' understanding of the bug's pathogenesis on its head: clumps of immune cells, called granulomas, long thought to ...

An outbreak of tuberculosis, or TB – a lung disease that is often accompanied by a hacking cough – began in January 2024 in Kansas City, Kansas, and two nearby counties and continues as of early March ...

TB can be cured, but ridding the body of the bug often takes many months and usually requires taking four or more medicines. In this special briefing, Spotlight zooms in on what makes the TB bacterium ...

Tuberculosis has earned the undesirable distinction of being the world's top infectious disease killer — a mantle it took back from COVID in 2023. TB claimed the lives of 1.23 million people in 2024 ...

When most of us think of serious diseases that kill millions of people, the ones that come to mind are often the ones that get the most attention: cancer, COVID-19, heart disease and diabetes. But a ...