Mycobacteria have evolved sophisticated ways to hijack human immune cells and avoid being destroyed. Specifically, they ...

As therapies and antibiotics develop and improve, pathogens adapt to overcome current medications. Bacteria are a specific organism that can adapt quickly | Immunology ...

After an active case of tuberculosis was detected in the Sacramento area, you may be wondering about your risks of contracting the highly contagious disease. An individual with contagious tuberculosis ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which causes the potentially fatal respiratory infection of the same name, was found to use a system known as PrrAB to ...

Painstaking experiments have revealed the cellular signatures that signify a tuberculosis infection, providing a series of targets for new vaccines that could finally subdue one of the world’s leading ...

A newly approved diagnostic test could give UK clinicians a more accurate way to identify latent and active tuberculosis (TB). The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has ...

Across Europe, tuberculosis (TB) is once again raising alarm, particularly the extensively drug-resistant form (XDR-TB), which is proving as deadly as before antibiotics were discovered. A large ...

There are three active cases of tuberculosis in Maine as of this week as TB continues to increase across the country, the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported, according to the ...

ABSTRACT: The mycobacterial enzyme gyrase is the target of second-line tuberculosis (TB) drugs, fluoroquinolones. Emerging mutations in DNA gyrase subunit B including Asparagine (Asn)499Aspartic acid ...

Besides their normal role, pump overexpression confers drug resistance. Knowing the structure is a step to disabling the pumps with inhibitors BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Tuberculosis is the world’s leading ...