A study led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers has found that certain antibodies inhibit Mycobacterium ...

Scientists have uncovered important clues to how human T cells combat Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes TB. La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) is working to guide the ...

From the Seshadri Lab as a part of the Cancer Consortium Support Grant To uncover whether these DURTs were associated with resistance to TB following exposure, the researchers utilized their cohort of ...

Antibiotic treatments are losing effectiveness against a range of common bacterial pathogens, including E. coli, K.

The body's first line of defense against tuberculosis (TB) involves immune cells that suppress lung inflammation instead of activating it, report University of Pittsburgh and the Ragon Institute of ...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Certain stem cells protect tuberculosis (TB) bacteria from being destroyed, which explains why TB can lie dormant for years or even decades in the human body, researchers said on ...

New drugs that target 'zombie' tuberculosis (TB) cells are now a step closer, thanks to a new study led by the University of Surrey, published in Scientific Reports. Many dangerous pathogens, ...

Tuberculosis, the world's deadliest infectious disease, is estimated to infect around 10 million people each year, and kills more than 1 million annually. Once established in the lungs, the bacteria's ...

LJI Research Assistant Professor Cecilia Lindestam Arlehamn, Ph.D., led the new research in collaboration with LJI Professors Bjoern Peters, Ph.D., and Alessandro Sette, Dr.Biol.Sci. LA JOLLA, CA—La ...