A new study has found highly vulnerable weakness in drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis, offering a new way to kill them. A University of Otago-led study has found highly vulnerable weakness in ...

People and animals are very susceptible to infections from Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), the bacterium that causes ...

Some antibiotics stop bacteria from growing without actually killing them, allowing infections to return later. Scientists at ...

In a lab in the heart of Boston, professor Bree Aldridge leads a team of researchers trying to understand a threat that is both microscopic in size and global in consequence. The subject of Aldridge’s ...

Antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) refers to coordinated strategies for the targeted, evidence-based, and safe use of ...

To find new treatments for tuberculosis, researchers at the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH's) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases turned to the natural enemies of the pathogen ...

Drugs that act against bacteria are mainly assessed based on how well they inhibit bacterial growth under laboratory ...

When you have a contagious disease like tuberculosis (TB), refusing treatment and refusing to isolate are not personal choices. Such choices affect not only you but also everyone around you, at least ...

New technologies like wastewater surveillance have enabled public health officials to monitor the spread of a few infectious diseases in a community by identifying known pathogens by their DNA. While ...