Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the pathogen responsible for tuberculosis, has evolved a remarkably layered set of molecular ...

A vaccine protects more than 100 million infants each year from severe tuberculosis (TB), including the fatal brain swelling it can cause in babies and toddlers. But the vaccine doesn't prevent adults ...

Although drug-resistant tuberculosis is so deadly in part because some first-choice antibiotics fail to kill TB bacteria, the TB bacteria may also be undermining the body’s ability to defend itself, a ...

An outbreak struck a San Francisco high school, but the Bay Area has a long history as epicenter of tuberculosis in California.

A resident in southern New Jersey recently tested positive for tuberculosis. Here's what you need to know about the spread of ...

Scientists have uncovered an elegant biophysical trick that tuberculosis-causing bacteria use to survive inside human cells, a discovery that could lead to new strategies for fighting one of the world ...

Explore how tuberculosis bacteria survive within human cells, revealing potential paths for new treatments against this ...

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 ...

Ocular TB is a rare eye disease due to infection from Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the same bacterium that causes tuberculosis, commonly known as TB. TB symptoms usually start in the lungs, but they ...

“There’s a dire need for better prevention, because treatment alone is not going to contain the spread of TB,” says Amanda Martinot, DVM, MPH, PhD, an associate professor at Cummings School of ...

Public health officials said the new exposures are not linked to a separate investigation earlier in 2025 at the same school.

Seattle & King County says it is following up after a person associated with Rainier Beach High School in Seattle was diagnosed with active tuberculosis. Health officials are working with the school ...