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 ...

PROBABLY every physician has been surprised by the sporadic appearance of pulmonary and other forms of tuberculosis in a previously healthy older person in whom recent exposure to an open case of the ...

Patients with HIV-associated tuberculosis (TB) initiating antiretroviral therapy (ART) may develop immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (TB-IRIS). No biomarkers for TB-IRIS have been identified ...

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lasma metabolomic analysis in active tuberculosis patients and healthy controls. Cerebral tuberculosis (CTB), a severe and often fatal form of central nervous system (CNS) tuberculosis, poses ...

Intraocular TB is rare in patients with active systemic TB. It is likely that there may be some genetic factors playing a major role. Over the next 5 years, the pathogenesis of intraocular TB will be ...

Researchers have identified a new way that tuberculosis bacteria get into the body, revealing a potential therapeutic angle to explore. Researchers from UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — The incidence of active tuberculosis (TB) infection increased as much as 5 times for HIV-infected patients who received highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) therapy in ...

Molecular piracy and the mobilization of Staphylococcus aureus pathogenicity islands Staphylococcus aureus is an opportunistic pathogen that can cause serious local and systemic infections in humans ...