Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are known as atypical mycobacteria. That means they’re related to tuberculosis, but they don’t cause the same disease. In fact, NTM are generally harmless. That’s a ...

MicuRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ("MicuRx"), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing novel anti-infective therapies for drug-resistant bacterial infections, recently announced ...

Researchers at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences have developed a new inhalable form of tuberculosis (TB) treatment that could significantly reduce the burden of current therapy.

Tuberculosis, caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) kills upwards of 1.6 million people a year, making it one of the leading causes of death by an infectious agent worldwide -- and ...

Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of the respiratory disease tuberculosis, caused 1.6 million deaths in 2021. Tuberculosis, despite being preventable and curable, is responsible for the ...

A team of United States-based scientists recently conducted a study to evaluate the effect of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection on the pathogenesis of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus ...

Mycobacterium abscessus (MAB) is a species of nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) and a major causative pathogen of pulmonary diseases especially in patients with cystic fibrosis. MAB infection is ...

A sputum stain for Mycobacteria is a laboratory test performed on a sample of your sputum, or phlegm. It’s also known as an acid-fast bacillus (AFB) stain or a tuberculosis (TB) smear. A doctor ...

An immunocompetent 52-year-old man presented with lesions and inflammation on his left arm after lacerating his index finger while cleaning a fish tank (Figure 1). The lesions appeared at the ...

Six years ago, researchers described the first toxin ever found for the deadly pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis. However, the mechanism for its secretion from the bacterium was unknown. Now, ...