Tag: Tuberculosis

A six-week field deployment of AI cough-analysis screening in Andhra Pradesh flagged 780 people at TB risk, confirmed 11 cases ...

Community health workers in Madagascar outline five priorities for a stronger tuberculosis response

A qualitative study of 26 community health workers in Madagascar identifies five priorities for strengthening the country's tuberculosis response.

Soluble CD161 rises with severe tuberculosis and blockade reshapes cytokine responses

A new study reports that soluble CD161 is elevated in tuberculosis patients, especially those with radiographically severe disease, and that ...

CK2α kinase drives P-glycoprotein buildup that undermines tuberculosis drug treatment in macrophages

A new study reports that the kinase CK2α regulates P-glycoprotein expression in macrophages through two signaling pathways, and that combining ...

Piperazine Derivatives Show Potent Antimicrobial and Anticancer Activity in Review

A systematic review of 2020–2025 research highlights piperazine derivatives with potent activity against bacteria, tuberculosis, breast cancer cells and Zika ...

Lung cavities in tuberculosis linked to microbial imbalance, study finds

A retrospective study of 189 tuberculosis patients found that cavitary pulmonary tuberculosis is associated with higher abundance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis ...

Reproducible PET/CT Radiomic Features Track Treatment Response in TB-Infected Marmosets

A study of TB-infected marmosets identifies 26 inter-reader reproducible PET/CT radiomic features that capture treatment-associated changes over time.

Tuberculosis drug resistance climbs in Zhengzhou over a decade

A ten-year analysis of 9,665 tuberculosis isolates from Zhengzhou, China, finds overall drug resistance rising from 17.29 percent to 22.98 ...

Pre-Departure Tuberculosis Screening Offers Limited Predictive Value for Ethiopian Migrants in Israel

A ten-year Israeli cohort study found that 0.6 percent of screened Ethiopian migrants developed tuberculosis after arrival, with HIV infection, ...

AI Model Detects Tuberculosis on Chest X-rays While Guarding Against Data Leakage

A new dual-branch AI framework called TBFuseFormer detects tuberculosis on chest X-rays with 99.39 percent held-out test accuracy after removing ...

Xpert leads molecular TB tests in smear-negative lavage fluid, retrospective study finds

A retrospective Chinese hospital study found Xpert MTB/RIF was the most sensitive single test for tuberculosis in smear-negative lavage fluid, ...

CRISPR-based LAMP assays detect tuberculosis with high accuracy in early study

Two LAMP-CRISPR diagnostic pipelines for Mycobacterium tuberculosis reached a limit of detection of 10 copies per microlitre, with the Cas12a ...

Age, Diabetes and Psychiatric History Shape Outcomes in Tuberculous Pleural Effusion

A seven-year study of over 18,000 tuberculosis patients in Shanghai identifies older age, diabetes and psychiatric history as key factors ...

Deep learning model reads chest X-rays for pneumonia and tuberculosis in Ethiopia

A customized VGG19 deep learning model trained on 2,100 chest X-rays from Ethiopian hospitals classified pneumonia and tuberculosis with 99% ...

AI Shows Strong Accuracy for Some Pediatric Diagnoses but Stumbles on Tuberculosis

A new systematic review and meta-analysis of 20 studies finds that AI models show high pooled accuracy for detecting pediatric ...

Targeted sequencing finds frequent TB and NTM co-detection in Chinese cohort

Targeted sequencing of 83 respiratory specimens in Jiangxi, China, found MTC/NTM co-detection in about a quarter of patients and genotypically ...

Tuberculosis treatment reshapes ferroptosis-related blood markers in small Iraqi study

A small prospective study in Iraq found that ferroptosis-related and inflammatory blood markers in pulmonary tuberculosis patients shifted toward control ...

Drug-Resistant RDRio Tuberculosis Strain Tracked Across Ecuador

A surveillance study of 699 tuberculosis isolates from Ecuador found the drug-resistance-associated RDRio genotype at 5.72 percent prevalence, stable from ...

Long-read sequencing uncovers a novel ethA deletion driving ethionamide resistance in multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

Long-read sequencing of clinical multidrug-resistant tuberculosis isolates has revealed a previously undescribed 131-base-pair deletion in the ethA gene that functionally ...

Whole-genome sequencing maps tuberculosis lineages and drug resistance across Indonesia