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When the COVID-19 pandemic was at its peak, and multiple variants were threatening lives around the world, scientists relied on a process called "tiled amplicon sequencing" to track the virus's spread ...

A resident in southern New Jersey recently tested positive for tuberculosis. Here's what you need to know about the spread of ...

You may have seen reports of an outbreak of tuberculosis in Kansas City and thought: Oh, no! Is this the start of something bigger? Do you need to worry? First, the facts: The tuberculosis outbreak ...

In Johnson County, Iowa, the number of tuberculosis cases has increased in recent years—and so has the cost of containing it.

To address the global burden of tuberculosis, one of humankind's oldest scourges, an international collaboration led by Johns Hopkins Medicine has today been awarded up to $200 million in research ...

A recent study published by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital, in collaboration with the German Center for Infection Research, identified two main subtypes or ...

Patients who have drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) have a similar microbiological response to bedaquiline-based second-line medications as patients with drug-sensitive TB taking first-line regimens, ...

Tuberculosis patients danced in the corridors of New York City’s Sea View Hospital ten years ago to celebrate their speeding recovery on new drugs, mainly isoniazid, or INH (for isonicotinic acid ...

Five tuberculosis conventions† met simultaneously in Chicago last week. Three dramatic new developments were reported in the fight against the disease which still takes nearly 60,000 lives a year in ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 22 — Tuberculosis (TB) cases in Malaysia have increased, but the Health Ministry said the ...

Tuberculosis cases across Malaysia has crossed the 3,100 mark following the detection of 596 new infections, said Malaysia's Ministry of Health (KKM) on Saturday (Feb 21).A statement posted by KKM on ...