Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Mycobacterial infections of the foot and ankle are rare among patients with diabetic foot infections. No ...

An Australian study has linked rapidly growing mycobacterium infections to gastric banding surgery, but no clear source has been identified, according to an article published online September 10 in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Mycobacterial disease incidence was significantly higher among patients with vs. without allergic disease.

Mycobacterial diseases, most notably tuberculosis and infections from environmental mycobacteria, represent a significant global health challenge. Their clinical severity is often exacerbated in ...

An enzymatic cocktail can kill a variety of mycobacterial species of bacteria, including those that cause tuberculosis. With resistance to chemical antibiotics on the rise, the world needs entirely ...

Professor Guillermo Bazan (left) from the NUS Institute for Functional Intelligent Materials and the Department of Pharmacology at NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, and Ms Zhang Kaixi (right), ...

In a classic example of scientific problem solving, scientists from the Hackensack Meridian Center for Discovery and Innovation (CDI) and colleagues have published a paper introducing a promising new ...

A diagnostic tool has been developed to identify nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) infections, dramatically expediting the diagnostic process from 6 months to 2 hours. Regularly inhaling NTM may not ...

With resistance to chemical antibiotics on the rise, the world needs entirely new forms of antibiotics. A new study published in Microbiology Spectrum, a journal of the American Society for ...

A sugar on mycobacteria binds to the immune receptor dectin-1 on host macrophages, helping the bacteria survive and driving susceptibility to infection.

The Milwaukee Health Department is investigating several suspected cases of nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) infections following tattoo procedures performed by an unlicensed tattoo operation.