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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 : ...