The mystery of why mycobacteria -- a family that includes the microbe that causes TB -- are extraordinarily hardy organisms is being unravelled by research that offers new hope for developing a ...

A new study could help researchers identify how to tone down the ability of mycobacteria to cause disease and help them in treating infection. Tuberculosis-causing mycobacteria use a select group of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Nontuberculous mycobacteria pulmonary disease occurred in more patients with GERD. Risk factors for this disease ...

With resistance to chemical antibiotics on the rise, the world needs entirely new forms of antibiotics. A new study published in Microbiology Spectrum shows that an enzymatic cocktail can kill a ...

Mycobacteriaceae represent a family of bacteria. This family includes several bacterial species, some of which cause human disease, and others which do not. Mycobacterium tuberculosis leads to the ...

A diagnostic tool has been developed to identify nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) infections, dramatically expediting the diagnostic process from 6 months to 2 hours. Regularly inhaling NTM may not ...

Rarely do small biotech companies pursue projects instigated by patients themselves. But patient advocacy groups in the rare disease space aim to change that. These groups are led by patients who are ...

Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are mycobacteriaceae species that can cause the onset of illness in humans. NTM are present naturally in the soil and air. But NTM are not the causative agents of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. TB is an airborne infection caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. When streptomycin was first discovered in the 1940s, there was ...

The Glickman lab, in close collaboration with the Shuman lab, is broadly interested in the pathways and regulation of DNA repair in mycobacteria. Our goals in the DNA repair arena are twofold: 1) to ...