Advanced multiplexed imaging shows in how the immune response to Mtb when unvaccinated is very inflammatory and results in structures called granulomas, which are dense collections of immune cells ...

Every year, 10 million people contract tuberculosis (TB), a disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), and approximately 1.5 million patients succumb to the disease. Treatment ...

New observations of the early stages of tuberculosis infection may turn scientists' understanding of the bug's pathogenesis on its head: clumps of immune cells, called granulomas, long thought to ...