Mammalian hosts coordinate various cell death pathways as part of the immune defense system against pathogens including ...

Kansas has experienced a significant outbreak of tuberculosis with 67 active infections and even more latent cases of the ...

The diagnosis of TBM and miliary TB was finally confirmed by positive CSF and sputum culture of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The patient had a good response to standard antituberculous therapy ...

However, most people get infected with TB don’t get sick, according to NCDHSS. That’s because their bodies can fight the ...

Keywords for retrieval were "tuberculous meningitis" or "miliary tuberculosis" or "bacillus Calmette-Guérin" or "tuberculosis" and "cost-effectiveness" or "cost-benefit" or "cost-utility" or ...

It’s winter in the Northern Hemisphere, and for many people that means having the spotlight on your body’s largest organ—skin. In cold climates the skin can become substantially drier ...

Noticing any new changes to your skin, especially if a new growth pops up, only naturally sets off a series of internal alarm bells: Is that a mole, a wart, a melanoma? If that little bump on your ...

Hundreds of people in New Jersey, Delaware, and Pennsylvania are sickened with TB every year, but a recent deadly outbreak in Kansas has some worried about the disease’s spread. Tuberculosis ...

Wyandotte County is currently facing the largest outbreak of tuberculosis in United States, state officials say. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment reports 67 active infections of the ...

A wave of tuberculosis cases hitting the Kansas City, Kansas, metro area has caused dozens of illnesses and at least two deaths, according to the state health department. Cases related to the ...

Correction & clarification: This story has been updated to correct when the outbreak began. It’s January 2024. Health officials in Kansas have reported a tuberculosis outbreak in the ...