Scientists discovered genes in the tuberculosis bacterium that becomes essential for the pathogen's survival when it's exposed to air through coughing. These genes could be targets for new therapies ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: This article is part of a collection of expert commentaries. You can read the rest of the series here. It is true that the next pandemic is a matter of “when,” not “if.” The statistical ...

Health Minister Ong Ye Kung reassures Singaporeans that dining at Bedok Food Centre is safe despite recent tuberculosis ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is a confounding scourge. It's the leading cause of death from infectious disease in the world, and yet it's estimated that those deaths represent perhaps 5% of infections with ...

Recent research suggests that the emergence of tuberculosis infection in human populations dates back tens of thousands of years earlier than previously known cases in the Middle East. In ...

For some forms of tuberculosis, the chances that an exposed person will get infected depend on whether the individual and the bacteria share a hometown, according to a new study comparing how ...

A rapid diagnostic test for tuberculosis (TB) has been approved for the first time by the World Health Organization (WHO). The assay can identify the tuberculosis-causing pathogen Mycobacterium ...

Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the pathogen responsible for tuberculosis, has evolved a remarkably layered set of molecular tricks that allow it to survive and even thrive inside the very immune cells ...

New technologies like wastewater surveillance have enabled public health officials to monitor the spread of a few infectious diseases in a community by identifying known pathogens by their DNA. While ...

Discover the 25 deadliest infectious diseases of all time, ranked by their historical death toll. Learn about the pathogens ...

Tuberculosis lives and thrives in the lungs. When the bacteria that cause the disease are coughed into the air, they are thrust into a comparatively hostile environment, with drastic changes to their ...