Learn about the primary ways tuberculosis spreads through airborne ... Individuals with cavitary lesions in their lungs or positive sputum smears typically release more bacteria when ...

This week, publication of a special issue on tuberculosis (TB) begins in PLOS Medicine, advised by guest editors Richard Chaisson of Johns Hopkins University, Claudia Denkinger of the University ...

Cavitary lesions observed in three of the patients were treated by ... but active pulmonary sporotrichosis was found in the fourth case apparently associated with active pulmonary tuberculosis.

A study in Nature Communications reveals, for the first time, how the transcriptomic profile of human tuberculosis lung lesions is correlated with clinical data from the same patients.

THE therapy of pulmonary tuberculosis has progressed markedly in recent years. ... Thoracoplasty or pulmonary resection is frequently required for persistent cavitary lesions.

“If someone comes in and they’re coughing up blood like they got a cavitary lesion, that’s when you’re going to think TB,” he said. “A lot of times, it doesn’t present like that.

“If someone comes in and they’re coughing up blood like they got a cavitary lesion, that’s when you’re going to think TB,” he said. “A lot of times, it doesn’t present like that.

An outbreak of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) ... including a severely ill young adult with pulmonary cavitary lesions, who had been symptomatic since September 2021.

Researchers report that a powerful imaging tool called microCT can be used to create a three-dimensional, or 3D, atlas of the spectrum of lung lesions in both tuberculosis and COVID-19, at near ...