New drugs that target "zombie" tuberculosis (TB) cells are now a step closer, thanks to a new study led by the University of ...

The researchers studied cases of TB from Djibouti, in the Horn of Africa, in which unusual bacteria strains form colonies physically different from anything seen before.

As TB bacteria grow and spread, ... Chest X-ray findings can help a doctor find nodules, masses, or lesions that indicate colonies of TB bacteria and damage to tissues from infectious bacteria.

The bacteria's growth was filmed by Park, and video artist Alex May mapped a timelapse video of the spreading colonies (seen at 1:35 in the video below) onto the dress that projected while it's on ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have shown how the bacteria causing tuberculosis (TB) directly cross the brain's protective barrier, causing meningitis, a very severe form of the ...

Tuberculosis bacteria find their ecological niche Date: November 3, 2016 Source: German Center for Infection Research Summary: An international team of researchers has isolated and analyzed ...

Lone Bacteria Are More Likely to Become Drug Resistant Than Big Colonies ... the researchers exposed E. coli grown in both large and small colonies to Rifampicin, a drug used to treat tuberculosis.

A new molecule that reveals active tuberculosis bacteria in coughed-up mucus and saliva could simplify TB diagnoses and speed up tests for detecting strains of the disease that are resistant to drugs.

Antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis is a common and serious problem globally. In a new article, researchers from Uppsala University describe how tuberculosis bacteria that carries a mutation that in ...

Researchers have found tuberculosis bacteria in human remains uncovered in a 200-year-old Hungarian crypt. The finding reveals that TB affected many in the European upper classes in the 18th ...