As of early 2025, tuberculosis cases are increasing in the U.S. This disease, often shortened to TB, causes significant lung ...

As of early 2025, tuberculosis cases are increasing in the U.S. This disease causes significant lung damage and, if not ...

World TB Day on March 24 raises awareness about the ... A type of white blood cell called a macrophage gets taken over during a tuberculosis infection, becoming an incubator for the pathogen.

In a sense the macrophage — which translates from Greek as "big eater” — gobbles down foreign bacteria, through a process scientists call xenophagy. Mycobacterium tuberculosis, along with a ...