A promising TB vaccine can be protected from heat damage with a technique developed at the University of Bath. Scientists working on a new tuberculosis (TB) vaccine have achieved a major ste... Read more
About 1.5 million people died of tuberculosis (TB) in 2017, making it the most lethal infectious disease worldwide. A growing rise in drug-resistant TB is a major obstacle to successfully tr... Read more
Research led by the Centenary Institute in Sydney has found a brand new target for treating drug resistant tuberculosis; our scientists have uncovered that the tuberculosis bacterium hijacks... Read more
In part because of its resistance to many antibiotics, tuberculosis kills approximately 1.7 million people worldwide each year. But new research from the University of Notre Dame suggests th... Read more
Led by researchers at RCSI (Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland), a team of researchers has developed a new treatment for tuberculosis (TB). This work could offer a practical treatment that... Read more
Scientists at The University of Manchester have developed the first non-antibiotic drug to successfully treat tuberculosis in animals. The team hope the compound –developed after 10 years of... Read more
Scientists in the San Francisco Bay Area identify nearly 200 potential drug targets Tuberculosis is one of the top 10 causes of death worldwide. Nearly 2 million people die every year from t... Read more
Research shows that rats can detect tuberculosis in children with higher accuracy than standard microscopy tests Rats are able to detect whether a child has tuberculosis (TB), and are much m... Read more