Caitlin Dugdale, MD, MSc, and Kimon Zachary, MD, physicians in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and assistant professors of Medicine at Harvard Medical ...

Tuberculosis, or TB, is an airborne lung disease caused by a bacterium called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. After entering the lung, these bacteria bury deep into the tissue and begin to spread, causing ...

In his introduction to a Grand Forks community tuberculosis panel Thursday, Dr. Raymond Goldsteen called the past few months preceding it a "moment of learning" when it came to managing one of North ...

Tuberculosis (TB) latency involves infection with the bacteria that also cause active TB. However, people with TB latency do not have symptoms. Treatment for TB latency can help reduce the risk of ...

Interferon-gamma release assays (IGRAs) have emerged as pivotal immunodiagnostic tools for the detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. By measuring interferon-gamma released by sensitised T ...