The infant tuberculosis vaccine, BCG, prevents severe tuberculosis disease, but protection is rarely durable beyond childhood. New tuberculosis vaccines are being developed for the prevention of infec...

Background: Vietnam is a top 20 burden country for multi-drug resistant/rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis (MDR/RR-TB), with nearly 10,000 cases a year. With the emergence of new diagnostic assays for ...

Alvaro Schwalb and colleagues conducted a mathematical modelling study to estimate the global burden of viable Mycobacterium tuberculosis--that which can cause disease and be transmitted--to help guid...

Alvaro Schwalb and colleagues conducted a mathematical modelling study to estimate the global burden of viable Mycobacterium tuberculosis--that which can cause disease and be transmitted--to help guid...

AbstractBackground. India has the highest global burden of human tuberculosis (TB) and the largest cattle herd with endemic bovine TB. However, the extent

The ongoing transmission of tuberculosis in the US-born population is one of the factors that explains the difference in sex-specific rates of disease in San Francisco. Observed differences in tubercu...