Every year, 10 million people contract tuberculosis (TB), a disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), and approximately 1.5 million patients succumb to the disease. Treatment ...

A simple model projected which strains were likely to be highly transmissible, with implications for public health.

Around 1.5 million patients succumb to the disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). The novel ...

lstmed.ac.uk Background Post-tuberculosis lung damage (PTLD) is a recognised consequence of pulmonary TB (pTB). However, little is known about its prevalence, patterns and associated outcomes, ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (CBS DETROIT) - An active case of tuberculosis has been diagnosed in Kalamazoo, the Kalamazoo County Health & Community Services Department reported. The case involves someone at ...

Tuberculosis cases are on the rise, including in North Carolina. The Kansas City area is currently at the epicenter of an unusual tuberculosis outbreak, where 67 people are being treated for the ...

1 Latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI ... history of homelessness and country of birth were considered as exposure variables, and a logistic regression model was used to examine the evidence for these ...

Alaska’s rates of tuberculosis inched up in the past year, continuing the state’s long pattern of having the nation’s highest or nearly highest rates of this respiratory disease, according ...

Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis without extensive drug resistance ... Subsequently, the Bayesian meta-regression model DisMod-MR 2.1 and the spatio-temporal Gaussian process regression model (ST-GPR) ...

WHITEHALL, Ohio (WKRC) - A case of tuberculosis (TB) was confirmed at a high school in Ohio. According to WBNS, public health officials in Columbus were notified of a tuberculosis case at ...

An major tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City area has sickened dozens and killed two over the past year, and the number of cases continues to grow. Trump administration erases mention of ...

A tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in the Kansas City area has gained national attention this week, with headlines claiming it’s the “largest outbreak in U.S. history” since the Centers for Disease Control ...