Background Tuberculosis remains a global public health threat, and the development of
rapid and precise diagnostic tools is the key to enabling the early start of treatment …

Knowledge of aging biology needs to be expanded due to the continuously growing number
of elderly people worldwide. Aging induces changes that affect all systems of the body. The …

Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is known to evade host immune responses and persist in
macrophages for long periods. A mechanism that the host uses to combat Mtb is xenophagy …

Introduction Despite huge efforts, tuberculosis (TB) is still a major public health threat
worldwide, it is estimated that a quarter of the global population is infected by …

Even today, tuberculosis in childhood is a disease that is often undiagnosed and
undertreated. In the absence of therapy with antituberculosis drugs, children in the first years …

The report of the World Health Organization (WHO) about the poor accessibility of people
living in low-to-middle-income countries to medical facilities and personnel has been a …

Background Incipient tuberculosis, a progressive state of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
infection with an increased risk of developing into tuberculosis disease, remains poorly …

Objective: Several therapies with immune-modulatory functions have been proposed to
reduce the overwhelmed inflammation associated with COVID-19. Here we investigated the …

We are still getting to grip with the impact that COVID-19 pandemic has had on the
tuberculosis (TB). 1–3 The Global Tuberculosis Network (GTN) described the first small …

This study aimed to assess the efficacy of chemiluminescence-based urinary
lipoarabinomannan (LAM) antigen assay as a diagnostic tool for identifying active …