Spreading easily through the air, Mycobacterium tuberculosis can establish a chronic infection in human lungs, which can turn ...

The current TB vaccine Mycobacterium bovis bacillus Calmette–Guérin ... vaccines based on antigens that are expressed by the bacteria during latency, as recently discussed elsewhere 6.

10 in Nature Microbiology, tackle the challenge of engineering bacteria that are safe for use ... strain of the closely related Mycobacterium bovis, has been available for over a century but ...

Magnetotactic bacteria synthesize magnetic iron nanominerals, which function as tiny compasses that allow the microbes to navigate using Earth's geomagnetic field. Earth's iron cycle is a very ...