Tuberculosis is still one of the deadliest infectious diseases, causing over one million deaths each year worldwide. Additionally, about one-fourth of the world's population carries Mycobacterium ...

There is no highly effective vaccine against tuberculosis (TB), which remains an infection of global concern. Charles Kyriakos Vorkas, MD, an infectious diseases physician-scientist at the Renaissance ...

Researchers headed by a team at Pitt University, in collaboration with scientists at Cornell University, have developed a self-destructing, intravenous (i.v.) Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine ...

Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Public Health Image Library, NIAID, Image ID: 18139) Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Public Health Image Library, NIAID, Image ID: 18139) Tuberculosis (TB) is the number one ...

HELENA, Mont. — On the third floor of the University of Montana’s Skaggs Building, researchers work on the building blocks of a better vaccine for one of the world’s most lethal infectious diseases — ...

A highly anticipated trial of a tuberculosis vaccine yields disappointing results. A vaccine designed to protect infants against tuberculosis (TB) isn’t as effective as researchers had hoped. The ...

Repeated vaccination with the same vaccine results in higher levels of antibodies than following a single vaccination. Such homologous boosting is sufficient for organisms for which the protective ...

Whole blood derived from six adult donors who were inoculated with BCG in their childhood was cultured with MDP1 alone, MDP1 in combination with G9.1, or in combination with the negative form of ...

The Kansas City area is at the epicenter of an “unprecedented” tuberculosis outbreak, which is among the largest in U.S. history, the Kansas City Star reported. As of Friday, 67 people were being ...