Children in TB-endemic countries suffer severe TB-related morbidity and mortality, but this is rarely appreciated due to diagnostic difficulties and poor data collection (1). Children were ...

Monday 24th March 2025 is World Tuberculosis Day. Along with its international collaborators , Oxford remains at the forefront of research to develop ...

The trial was conducted in three countries where TB is endemic – Kenya, South Africa and Zambia – and involved 3,573 HIV-negative adults between the ages of 18 and 50 years who received two ...

But since 2021, the number of TB cases has fallen below 10 per 100,000 population, making Japan a “low endemic” country for TB as classified by the World Health Organization (WHO). Still ...

and thus TB is the most common and important cause of lung disability in many TB endemic countries. Drug-resistant TB is an emerging threat to TB control that is difficult and more expensive to ...

“Countries [in Europe] have robust tuberculosis ... The post-pandemic comeback of social interactions and increased travel to TB-endemic regions have likely contributed to the spread.

Kazemzadeh and colleagues evaluated the performance of AI systems that detect TB and chest X-ray abnormalities against that ...