Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease that kills more than a million people worldwide every year. The pathogen that causes the disease, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is deadly in part because of ...

CHAPEL HILL -- New research led by a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill scientist shows for the first time how Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the germ responsible for TB, uses a system for ...

New TB vaccines show safety but limited protection against all infection forms, particularly for adolescents and adults, phase-3 study reveals.

A histone acetylome-wide associations study (HAWAS) performed in immune cells from patients with active Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection versus those from healthy controls, has for the first time ...

Jim Sun examines how Mycobacterium tuberculosis evades human defenses and forges new ways to control this deadly bacterial ...

A phase-3 trial published in The British Medical Journal finds two new TB vaccines, VPM1002 and Immuvac, safe for use in India but not effective against all forms of tuberculosis, though they may help ...

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 ...

Intron retention is recognized as a key process in disease development, but its role in tuberculosis (TB) progression is ...

The two new tuberculosis vaccines could be safe for use in adults and children in India but may not provide protection against all forms of the infectious bacterial disease, according to phase-3 trial ...