Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is the pathogen that causes tuberculosis (TB), the world's deadliest infectious disease. Mtb is so successful and harmful because it can adapt to different conditions ...

Archaeological evidence reveals that Indigenous Peoples have resided in the Andes Mountains for more than 12,000 years, in regions including modern-day Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Chile. As you might ...

Scientists discovered genes in the tuberculosis bacterium that becomes essential for the pathogen's survival when it's exposed to air through coughing. These genes could be targets for new therapies ...

Testing for tuberculosis has always been a tedious and complex process. For many years, it meant expensive equipment and ...

Editor’s note: This article is part of a collection of expert commentaries. You can read the rest of the series here. It is true that the next pandemic is a matter of “when,” not “if.” The statistical ...

The rod-shaped tuberculosis (TB) bacterium, which the World Health Organization has once again ranked as the top infectious disease killer globally, is the first single-celled organism ever observed ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is a confounding scourge. It's the leading cause of death from infectious disease in the world, and yet it's estimated that those deaths represent perhaps 5% of infections with ...

Health Minister Ong Ye Kung reassures Singaporeans that dining at Bedok Food Centre is safe despite recent tuberculosis ...

Recent research suggests that the emergence of tuberculosis infection in human populations dates back tens of thousands of years earlier than previously known cases in the Middle East. In ...

For some forms of tuberculosis, the chances that an exposed person will get infected depend on whether the individual and the bacteria share a hometown, according to a new study comparing how ...

Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is the pathogen that causes tuberculosis (TB), the world’s deadliest infectious disease. Mtb is so successful and harmful because it can adapt to different conditions ...

Highly localized TB strains are less infectious in cosmopolitan cities and more likely to infect people from the geographic area that is the strain's natural habitat. The research provides the first ...