A closely watched clinical trial testing what could be the world’s first new tuberculosis vaccine in a century has hit its ...

Tuberculosis is a "near-perfect predator," John Green said in his book "Everything is Tuberculosis." The bacterial infection, caused by the organism Mycobacterium tuberculosis, mostly affects the ...

In 2023, tuberculosis (TB) killed about 1.25 million people worldwide, more than any other infectious disease on Earth — even though it is curable. Months- or even years-long regimens of potent ...

Country-specific information is available for most of the world. Much of the information is directed toward the global control of tuberculosis with a focus on those areas where most cases of active ...

A pioneering study presented today at ESCMID Global 2025 has demonstrated that an AI-powered lung ultrasound outperforms human experts by 9% in diagnosing pulmonary tuberculosis (TB).1 ...