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 ...

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.

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 DECADE ago acute Military tuberculosis was probably a universally fatal disease. ... management should be similar to that of pulmonary cavitary or necrotic lesions with exudative pericavitary or ...

“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 ...

May 7—The Marin County public health office is tracking an uptick in active tuberculosis cases in Marin. The county had 13 reported cases in 2024, a 44% increase from the previous year. So far ...