Scientists have uncovered important clues to how human T cells combat Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes TB. La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) is working to guide the ...

A fluorescence microscopy image reveals the tuberculosis-causing bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis after an antimicrobial treatment. Membranes are stained red, DNA blue and areas of membrane ...

New drugs that target "zombie" tuberculosis (TB) cells are now a step closer, thanks to a new study led by the University of Surrey, published in Scientific Reports. Subscribe to our newsletter for ...

New drugs that target 'zombie' tuberculosis (TB) cells are now a step closer, thanks to a new study led by the University of Surrey, published in Scientific Reports. Many dangerous pathogens, ...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Certain stem cells protect tuberculosis (TB) bacteria from being destroyed, which explains why TB can lie dormant for years or even decades in the human body, researchers said on ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease that kills more than a million people worldwide every year. The pathogen that causes the disease, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is deadly in part because of ...

The rod-shaped tuberculosis (TB) bacterium, which the World Health Organization has once again ranked as the top infectious disease killer globally, is the first single-celled organism ever observed ...

Macrophages infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis were fixed and imaged at four hours and 72 h postinfection. (Scale bar, 4 μm.) LAM labeling with oxaziridines persists for up to 72 h. Images are ...

From the Seshadri Lab as a part of the Cancer Consortium Support Grant To uncover whether these DURTs were associated with resistance to TB following exposure, the researchers utilized their cohort of ...