Do you work closely with domestic animals? Have you recently consumed undercooked meat from a wild animal? If so, you may have been exposed to Mycobacterium bovis, a foodborne pathogen. Let's dive ...

Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are known as atypical mycobacteria. That means they’re related to tuberculosis, but they don’t cause the same disease. In fact, NTM are generally harmless. That’s a ...

The bacteria that cause the devastating disease tuberculosis have the ability to escape destruction and grow after they are engulfed by lung macrophages, the immune cells that are supposed to destroy ...

Scientists have created analogs of the antibiotic spectinomycin that are significantly more effective against these highly resistant bacteria. Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital are ...

In a classic example of scientific problem solving, scientists from the Hackensack Meridian Center for Discovery and Innovation (CDI) and colleagues have published a paper introducing a promising new ...

Tuberculosis, caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) kills upwards of 1.6 million people a year, making it one of the leading causes of death by an infectious agent worldwide - and ...

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), with collaborators from the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), have discovered how a key protein in the tuberculosis bacterium helps ...

To support drug discovery, a new study has revealed fundamental features of the transcription cycle in the bacteria that causes tuberculosis.

A sputum stain for Mycobacteria is a laboratory test performed on a sample of your sputum, or phlegm. It’s also known as an acid-fast bacillus (AFB) stain or a tuberculosis (TB) smear. A doctor ...

Researchers in Brazil have reported that ferroin, an iron complex delivered by lipid nanoparticles, eliminates detectable Mycobacterium tuberculosis from mouse lungs after 30 days, suggesting a ...