“We need constant surveillance and suppression to keep TB in a latent form,” says Jeffrey Cox, professor of immunology and pathogenesis at University of California, Berkeley. “If you remove ...

M. tuberculosis, the etiological agent of TB is one of the most effective human pathogens and is responsible for 2.2 million deaths every year (1 death every 10 seconds). It is estimated that a total ...

A new study published in Biochemistry sheds light on how bacteria regulate their genes, challenging long-held assumptions ...

Several strengths of the analysis deserve comment. We considered the effect of HIV infection on TB pathogenesis, and accounted for survival with asymptomatic HIV and clinical AIDS, since HIV ...

A new study, "Identifying Allosteric Hotspots in Mycobacterium tuberculosis cAMP Receptor Protein" published in Biochemistry, provides key insights into how bacterial cAMP receptor proteins (CRPs) ...