El hacinamiento de la prisión Central de Kumasi la convierte en un laboratorio en el abordaje de las enfermedades tropicales desatendidas. La falta de espacio y la humedad es un perfecto caldo de cultivo para el contagio de la tuberculosis, el sarampión, la sarna, que los presos contagian a su salida del penal

Despite growing awareness of the substantial burden of long-term pulmonary impairment among tuberculosis survivors, marked variability in how post-tuberculosis lung disease is defined across research ...

Authors analyzed malaria and tuberculosis drugs to create a pharmacometric model. They used an AI pipeline that prioritized pharmacogenetic drug-gene pairs with an emphasis on high variant frequency g...

A case of primary tuberculosis of the appendix per se is reported. The diagnosis was possible only on histological examination. Only 2 cases of appendicular tuberculosis were seen in a 4-year-period out of 340 appendices removed surgically....

Researchers from the LIMES Institute at the University of Bonn, the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) and the University Hospital…

Whole-blood RNA-sequencing analysis for detection of EPTB immunotypes. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-65561-x Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the world’s most common infectious diseases. Although infection with the Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacterium primarily affects the lungs, up to 25% of all infected people will also have it in other parts of their bodies, such as their lymph nodes, bones or brain. Across the world, TB is contracted by about 10 million people every year, 1.25 million of whom will die as a result of their infection. Up until now, however, the immune response to TB, and especially EPTB, has not

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Tuberculosis, a disease often thought of as part of the past, is reemerging across the United States. But Arizona State University scientists have made a discovery that could help stop it.