Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Mozambique faces alarming multidrug-resistant tuberculosis epidemic

With one of the highest tuberculosis (TB) incidences (368 cases/100,000 population) in the African region, Mozambique is particularly affected by the TB epidemic. Drug-resistant TB is also a major problem, with 4,800 new ...

Medical research

Why tuberculosis bacteria form long chains

A researcher team from Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne led by Dr. Vivek Thacker now group leader at the Department of Infectious Diseases at Heidelberg University Hospital have studied why tuberculosis bacteria form ...

Medical research

Researchers find a chink in the armor of tuberculosis pathogen

Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is the pathogen that causes tuberculosis (TB), the world's deadliest infectious disease. Mtb is so successful and harmful because it can adapt to different conditions inside our bodies, allowing ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Developing better diagnostic tools for tuberculosis

Many of us believe that tuberculosis has been eradicated, but this is not the case. In large parts of the world, tuberculosis is the infectious disease that takes most lives.

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