This is particularly relevant, as TB bacilli often persist in non-replicating states within granulomas (clusters of immune cells that wall off the infection), where they are shielded from antibiotics.

Anti-TB drugs are always prescribed in combination to reduce the risk of the TB bacilli becoming resistant to one or more strains of them. Patients will usually be started on three or four drugs.

It is not malaria but tuberculosis (TB) that is the poor relation. Government funds for a vaccine to fight this disease are in single figure millions.

Tuberculosis (TB) is a serious contagious disease caused by a bacterium called Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis). Microscopic examination remains the primary laboratory diagnostic method ...

After a period of diagnostic uncertainty, pulmonary tuberculosis was diagnosed by acid-fast bacilli stain and Mycobacterium tuberculosis positive culture from a sputum sample.