Tuberculosis can lead to red or purple swelling under the skin if the lymph nodes are infected, headache or confusion should the brain be infected, or blood in the uring of people with infected ...

Jan. 29, 2025 — Study finds three new safe and effective drug regimens to fight multidrug-resistant TB. The treatments, which include recently discovered TB drugs, give new options for shorter ...

It’s January 2024. Health officials in Kansas have reported a tuberculosis outbreak in the northeastern part of the state, with 67 cases since 2024. So far, officials have reported 60 active ...

Eligible cases are those without suspicion or evidence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) or rifampin-resistant TB that affect the peripheral lymph nodes or intrathoracic lymph nodes without airway ...

TB infections have been rising every year since 2020 after 30 years of decline. Now, a historic outbreak in Kansas is highlighting the disturbing trend. A colorized X-ray of a patient's chest ...

Jan. 15, 2025 — Researchers have designed process that uses ultrasound to modify the behavior of cancer-fighting T cells by increasing their cell permeability. They targeted freshly isolated ...

while endobronchial ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration cytology from mediastinal lymph nodes showed numerous caseating epithelioid cell granulomas. Cartridge-based nucleic acid amplification ...

A wave of tuberculosis cases hitting the Kansas City, Kansas, metro area has caused dozens of illnesses and at least two deaths, according to the state health department. Cases related to the ...

Moxifloxacin and linezolid were stopped because both chest CT (Figures 1C, D) and an ultrasound of the lymph nodes (the size of the biggest ones was reduced to 31*7mm on the right and 40*9mm on the ...

A tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas City, Kansas, has become the largest documented on record in the United States. As of Jan. 24, 2025, there have been 67 active cases reported in Wyandotte County ...

Two Kansas counties are reporting active cases of TB in the largest reported outbreak of the respiratory disease Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared ...

FILE - This 1966 microscope photo provided by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacilli, the organism responsible for causing the disease ...