What we know, what we miss and why TB persists. In a lab in the heart of Boston, professor Bree Aldridge leads a team of researchers trying to understand a threat that is both microscopic in size and ...

AI Portable X-ray Machine: According to the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr Rajat Kumar Chaurasia, "With the help of these portable X-ray machines we do at least 150 tests in a day though it has ...

According to the National TB Prevalence Survey, nearly 43 per cent of TB cases would have been missed if chest Xray was not included. A nucleic acid amplification test (NAAT) ...

Granuloma structure and distribution of the antibiotic BTZ-043 in differently stained tissue sections of two tuberculosis granulomas. The stains show (in z-shaped order from top left to bottom right): ...

Every year, 10 million people contract tuberculosis (TB), a disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), and approximately 1.5 million patients succumb to the disease. Treatment ...

U-Net-Attention-TBNet is an innovative deep-learning model developed for precisely segmenting and classifying tuberculosis (TB) lesions in chest X-ray images. This Model combines the U-Net ...

At the peak of the Kala Patthar landmark, 5,500 metres above sea level in eastern Nepal, Jacob Cresswell, a team leader working for the United Nations Stop TB programme, lifts several layers of ...

All four patients with gastroduodenal tuberculosis showed epitheloid granuloma and/ langerhans giant cell. Alvares et al. demonstrated well-formed granulomas in 23 patients (54%); 14 (61%) of these ...

Moreover, the immune system responds by forming granulomas, which are known as small nodules that contain infection. ... Bermejo-Peláez, D., and Ledesma-Carbayo, M. (2023). A lightweight, rapid and ...

Rarer still, the man turned out to be one of the 1.5% of patients with extrapulmonary TB whose infection specifically affects the skin. He was diagnosed with tuberculosis verrucosa cutis, which ...