Superspreading became a familiar concept to many during the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior studies examining infectious disease ...

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 ...

Genomic epidemiology has transformed our understanding of how Mycobacterium tuberculosis spreads within and between communities. By sequencing whole bacterial genomes at high resolution, researchers ...

Superspreading became a familiar concept to many during the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior studies examining infectious disease ...

Tuberculosis bacteria rely on a family of genes that help them survive the challenging journey from one person's lungs to another person's during coughing, sneezing or talking, according to ...

Background. Contact screening is an essential component of all tuberculosis control strategies. We hypothesize that time-to-detection (TTD) in liquid culture of spontaneously produced sputum samples ...

Two strains of the bacterium causing tuberculosis have only minor genetic differences but attack the lungs in completely different fashion, according to researchers. Two strains of the bacterium ...

Researchers uncover ancient transmission chains of tuberculosis, by analyzing the DNA of humans excavated from archaeological sites across Colombia. Although tuberculosis is one of the biggest ...

Recent news reports have highlighted several infectious diseases incidents, including three tuberculosis clusters in Singapore and a suspected hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship in the Atlantic ...