Science news articles about 'human tb'

  • Earliest known human TB found in 9,000 year-old skeletons

    ... the latest theory that bovine TB evolved later than human TB. The new research, led by ... lipids from Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the principal agent of human TB. The DNA was sufficiently well-preserved ...
  • Source of drug-tolerant tuberculosis possibly behind TB relapses, intensity of treatment

    ... anti-tuberculosis antibiotics," the team reports. People with TB typically undergo six to nine months of ... known whether the biofilm actually factors into human TB infections, Hatfull said. He added ...
  • Arizona State University research team working to decode TB

    ... whose work first cast doubt on the cattle-to-human TB link and its date range. Gutierrez ... to address the biogeography of the disease and what types of TB ancient people had relative to modern strains. ...
  • TB vaccine gets its groove back

    ... cows and that genetically is 98 percent identical to the human TB germ. During the early years ... BCG's poor activity against pulmonary TB from a different angle. They had reported in 2001 that one way ...
  • TB -- hiding in plain sight

    ... immunoregulatory mechanism associated with the development of clinical disease at the site of infection in human TB. They found that while the immune cells responsible for killing the tuberculosis ...
  • Making A Tuberculosis Vaccine That's Effective (Again)

    ... vaccines against other pathogens.  The current TB vaccine, known as BCG (bacille Calmette-Guérin), ... causes tuberculosis in cows and that genetically is 98 percent identical to the human TB germ.  read ...

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