Learn about the primary ways tuberculosis spreads through airborne transmission, high-risk settings, and effective prevention ...

Such symptomatic cases are known as active TB cases, which can be detected through clinical examination, chest X-ray or sputum examination. A person with active pulmonary TB can release infectious ...

TB can be found in every major city, in every country. Failing to control it threatens global health security. Now is not the ...

Three patients at Narva Hospital may have been exposed to tuberculosis (TB) through contaminated medical equipment, prompting an urgent investigation into safety failures and the hospital's ...

Treatment for active TB patients can last up to nine months, the CDC said. Patients are given a combination of antibiotics since the pathogen can become resistant to medication. “It’s very ...

At MIT, Bourouiba studies the physics of fluids and the ways in which droplet dynamics can spread particles and pathogens. She teamed up with Nathan, who studies tuberculosis, and the genes that ...

The day serves to recognise Dr Robert Koch's 1882 achievement of identifying the TB bacterial pathogen because this discovery enabled effective medical diagnosis and therapy for the disease.