A research team at UPV is leading the development of a sensor that paves the way for the rapid, selective and cost-effective ...

Researchers at Boston University have discovered an unexpectedly high prevalence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA (TB DNA) ...

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 ...

Tuberculosis (TB) remains a leading global infectious disease killer, second only to COVID-19¹. It is an airborne disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria and is responsible for infecting ...

A new blood test to detect Mycobacteria in blood has been developed by researchers. The scientists have used this new method to show that cattle diagnosed with bovine tuberculosis (bTB) have ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is a deadly global health crisis despite being a curable disease. In 2023 alone, TB killed about 1.25 million people globally — more than any other infectious pathogen. While the ...

Dr. Tony Hu, originally from China, came to the United States in 2012 for his master's in chemistry and his doctorate in biological engineering at the University of Texas in Austin. After two years in ...

Tuberculosis cases are becoming more prevalent, leading the World Health Organization to place tuberculosis back on the list of the top ten killer diseases (a list of the diseases that kill the most ...

Rats are able to detect whether a child has tuberculosis (TB), and are much more successful at doing this than a commonly used basic microscopy test. Rats are able to detect whether a child has ...

BETHESDA, Md. & GAITHERSBURG, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Longhorn Vaccines and Diagnostics, a One Health company developing vaccines and diagnostic tools for global public health and zoonosis concerns, ...