Many people with tuberculosis stay in the latent infection stage, but some develop the active disease. Both stages are treatable. Tuberculosis (TB) is a bacterial infection that usually affects the ...

Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the world's most serious public health threats, with approximately one-quarter of the global population infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. While most infections ...

There are almost 1.8 billion people with tuberculosis bacilli in their body, but only about 5% to 15% develop overt infection, usually within 18 months of initial exposure. The reason behind this ...

Household contacts of people with tuberculosis (TB) have a high risk of getting TB themselves, at around 2%. It is currently ...

Ohio scientists hope to counter the re-emerging threat of tuberculosis (TB) with help from proteins from our bodies. In a research report published in the June 2010 ...

Even as high-income countries roll out Covid-19 vaccine boosters and stockpile millions of vaccine doses, many low- and middle-income countries are struggling to obtain vaccines. Whereas 76% of people ...