The World Health Organization ( WHO ) has labelled tuberculosis as the world's leading infectious disease killer. With more ...

Tuberculosis, caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), is the world's deadliest single-agent infection, responsible for 1.23 million deaths in 2024, according to the World Health ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is the world's deadliest infectious disease—and one of the hardest to cure. Standard treatment requires a cocktail of multiple drugs over at least six months, and one in five ...

Researchers at UMass Amherst have combined high-throughput laboratory screening with an AI neural network to identify ...

A new intranasal DNA vaccine may give the immune system an extra weapon against tuberculosis by targeting bacteria that can ...

Researchers have developed new AI approach to select chemical compounds potentially effective for treating tuburculosis.

Tuberculosis (TB) is the world's biggest infectious disease killer, with multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) posing a particular threat to global health. A study led by the Swiss Tropical and Public ...

Researchers have discovered that over-the-counter drugs commonly used to treat heartburn could shorten the treatment of tuberculosis (TB). These drugs could also reduce the chances of the bacteria ...

Tufts University researchers’ approach uncovers how TB treatments can best work together at the cellular level to speed better cures Tuberculosis (TB) is the world’s deadliest infectious disease—and ...

Rutgers Health research has uncovered why a relatively new antibiotic for tuberculosis (TB) works against multidrug-resistant strains, potentially inspiring improved treatments and drug development ...

Patients who have drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) have a similar microbiological response to bedaquiline-based second-line medications as patients with drug-sensitive TB taking first-line regimens, ...