Detecting TB early goes a long way toward avoiding some of the disease's worst outcomes and preventing its spread to others.

A resurgence of tuberculosis in the U.S. from 1985 to 1992 was attributed, in part, to a decline in tuberculosis control ...

Author John Green wants people to know tuberculosis is both preventable and curable, but the infectious disease still claims ...

AIDS-related illnesses continue to be the most common cause of hospital admissions for people living with HIV worldwide, ...

Despite these challenges, global efforts to prevent, treat and test for tuberculosis in regions with high rates of infection have helped to save nearly 80 million lives over the past 20 years.

The Global Tuberculosis Program began in 2011 with the recruitment of world-renowned pediatric TB expert Dr. Anna Mandalakas to Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, ...

The controlled living pattern of all boys in the school and the tuberculosis-control program in effect when the outbreak occurred provided an unusual opportunity to study the epidemiology of this ...

Drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis arises from the man-made ... drug-resistant TB poses a serious challenge to the global control of TB. In order to combat extensively drug-resistant ...

With a background in epidemiology and global health, she explores co-infections with herpesviruses or tuberculosis among people with or at risk for HIV. Dr. Bender Ignacio also studies the development ...