People and animals are very susceptible to infections from Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), the bacterium that causes ...

This 2006 electron microscope image provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria, which causes the disease tuberculosis. (Janice Carr/CDC via AP ...

Growing up in Burundi, a country of 13 million people in East Africa, Mireille Kamariza was familiar with the devastating effects of tuberculosis (TB). “It’s a long and torturous disease,” she says.

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have shown how the bacteria causing tuberculosis (TB) directly cross the brain's protective barrier, causing meningitis, a very severe form of the disease ...