The goal of the study is to investigate host genetic and immunologic predictors of resistance to M. tuberculosis infection and progression from latent M. tuberculosis infection to active tuberculosis ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease that kills more than a million people worldwide every year. The pathogen that causes the disease, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is deadly in part because of ...

Mammalian hosts coordinate various cell death pathways as part of the immune defense system against pathogens including Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), which causes tuberculosis featuring lung ...

Down-regulation of plasma exosome-derived apolipoproteins APOA1, APOB, and APOC1 indicates DR-TB status and lipid metabolism regulation in pathogenesis. Group case-controlled study assessed 17 drug ...

A new study, "Identifying Allosteric Hotspots in Mycobacterium tuberculosis cAMP Receptor Protein" published in Biochemistry, provides key insights into how bacterial cAMP receptor proteins (CRPs) ...

Disseminated tuberculosis is a type of tuberculosis (TB) where mycobacteria spread via blood to other organs beyond the lungs. It can cause severe multiple-organ damage in the absence of early ...

Based on: The Pathogenesis of Tuberculosis. By Arnold R. Rich, M.D. 4°, cloth, 1008 pp., with 89 illustrations, 20 tables and 4 charts. Springfield, Illinois ...