A student at Colonia High School in Woodbridge has tested positive for tuberculosis, a potentially dangerous lung disease. In ...

World Tuberculosis Day 2025 is observed on March 24 to raise awareness about the bacterial disease and its effects on the ...

When German biologist and doctor Robert Koch announced in 1882 that he had discovered the bacterial cause of tuberculosis, he said, "If the number of victims which a disease claims is the measure ...

They engineered a strain of M. tuberculosis carrying a triple kill switch, which uses three independent molecular mechanisms to kill the bacteria. Even in severely immunocompromised mice ...

An inexpensive, over-the-counter pain reliever can kill the bacteria that cause tuberculosis (TB)—even the drug-resistant varieties—according to a new study published online in the Proceedings of the ...

Still, for decades, the fight against TB has been frozen in time, even as the bacteria that causes it has become more resistant. The world’s only TB vaccine protects young infants and children but ...