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 ...

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.

This photomicrograph reveals Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria using acid-fast Ziehl-Neelsen stain; Magnified 1000 X. The acid-fast stains depend on the ability of mycobacteria to retain dye ...

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

Worldwide, TB is among the top 10 causes of death. It killed 1.4 million people in 2019, and about 10 million people fall ill with it each year, according to the World Health Organization.

Dormant TB affects billions but only some develop active disease. Learn how your genes control if tuberculosis bacteria stay dormant or become deadly.

There were an estimated 490,000 new cases of drug-resistant TB in 2016. Tuberculosis, a lung disease most often transmitted by breathing infected particles in the air, is the ninth leading cause ...

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 ...

Over the past 15 years, they have tested their theory on over two dozen bacterial species, including the ones responsible for tuberculosis and leprosy. No biofilms survived the disappearance of DNABII ...

Scrofula, also called cervical tuberculous lymphadenitis, is a type of tuberculosis infection.It's caused by the same bacteria that causes pulmonary tuberculosis (TB).