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

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

Indoor air quality is a silent public health crisis, harbouring pathogens that contribute to billions of illnesses annually ...

Tuberculosis (TB) remains a global health challenge, affecting millions each year. Globally, an estimated 10.8 million people ...

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 ...

More than 10,300 cases of tuberculosis were reported last year in the U.S., which is an 8% increase compared to 2023. What to know about this disease ...

Pathogen’s perspective Tuberculosis is a respiratory disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, a bacterium that most commonly affects the lungs and is transmitted through droplets that an ...

Narva Hospital reported that during routine testing, traces of a TB pathogen were incidentally detected in samples ... and we will keep them under active pulmonary specialist monitoring for two years.

Candidate transmission survival genome of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2025; 122 (10) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2425981122 Cite This Page : ...