Tuberculosis remains a critical public health issue in many countries and is a leading cause of death in South Africa. Over the past six years, the BEAT Tuberculosis study, conducted in South ...

Beat Tuberculosis, has become the world's first initiative in the fight against drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) for all population groups, influencing the World Health Organization policy on ...

TB remains one of the world's deadliest infectious diseases, yet the origins of M. tuberculosis are still not fully understood. In a new study published in PLOS Pathogens, research led by the ...

The omnipresence of tuberculosis (TB) in the pages of history and literature is testimony to how the disease has plagued generations across the world and continues to be a major problem even today.

Tuberculosis (TB) is a confounding scourge. It's the leading cause of death from infectious disease in the world, and yet it's estimated that those deaths represent perhaps 5% of infections with ...

The study explains why treatments for many autoimmune and inflammatory diseases raise the risk of contracting TB -- and also upends long-held assumptions about what kicks off an immune response.

The Ministry of Health has launched a tuberculosis community awareness, screening and testing (CAST) campaign to curb the spread of the disease in the country. Tuberculosis (TB) CAST campaign ...

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Badger culling will end in England within five years as part of a shift in the fight against bovine tuberculosis, the government said on Friday. As part of the new TB eradication strategy ...