Background. Contact screening is an essential component of all tuberculosis control strategies. We hypothesize that time-to-detection (TTD) in liquid culture of spontaneously produced sputum samples ...

In 1994, CDC published the Guidelines for Preventing the Transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Health-Care Facilities, 1994. The guidelines were issued in response to 1) a resurgence of ...

Two strains of the bacterium causing tuberculosis have only minor genetic differences but attack the lungs in completely different fashion, according to researchers. Two strains of the bacterium ...

Chennai: Researchers at Tamil Nadu's National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis (NIRT) and Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) found instances of reverse zoonosis (human-to-animal and ...

NEW YORK, June 14 (Praxis Press) Despite improvements in tuberculosis (TB) control during the past decade, Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission continues to occur in the United States. Chin and ...

Tuberculosis has been a scourge upon humanity throughout history. In killing more than a million each year worldwide, it remains the leading cause of death from a single infectious pathogen. While ...

New York, Two strains of the bacterium causing tuberculosis have only minor genetic differences but attack the lungs in a completely different fashion, says a new study. The findings, published in the ...