Researchers at the University of Surrey have identified a protein that acts as a control switch, preventing Mycobacterium ...

New research from Imperial College London suggests that infection with the influenza virus may leave people more susceptible ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a tuberculosis infection-control program should consist of administrative controls, environmental controls and a respiratory-protection ...

Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) programs are tasked with implementing the appropriate isolation of patients with suspected or confirmed communicable diseases to reduce the risk of health ...

Announcing a new article publication for Zoonoses journal. Tuberculosis (TB) is among the main infectious diseases ...

Background: Diagnosis and treatment of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is the most effective strategy to control tuberculosis (TB) among patients with HIV infection. The tuberculin skin test (TST ...

Despite being heavily infiltrated by immune cells, tuberculosis (TB) granulomas often subvert the host response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) infection and support bacterial persistence. Human ...

A new clinical decision support system, "TBorNotTB," helps streamline airborne infection isolation decisions, reducing workload while maintaining TB detection accuracy. Study: TB or not TB?

Tuberculosis (TB) claimed the lives of 1.25 million individuals in 2023, making it replace COVID-19 and return to the leading infectious cause of death globally 1. The World Health Organization (WHO) ...

Caitlin Dugdale, MD, MSc, and Kimon Zachary, MD, physicians in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and assistant professors of Medicine at Harvard Medical ...

Patients with suspected tuberculosis (TB) require special precautions in healthcare facilities, and cases of TB have been rising in the US over the past several years. These precautions include ...