Interrupting transmission events is critical to tuberculosis control. Cough-generated aerosol
cultures predict tuberculosis transmission better than microbiological or clinical markers. We …

Tuberculosis (TB) remains a significant global health threat with high mortality and efforts to
meet WHO End TB Strategy milestones are off‐track. It has become clear that TB is not a …

In the study of sea ice, the portion of an iceberg that sits below the water is known as the
bummock, counterpart to the hummock, the visible crest of ice. As amateur oceanographers …

The identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis as a causal agent of tuberculosis
revolutionised the understanding of human diseases by showing that some have an …

Tuberculosis is the leading cause of death from a single infectious agent, with over 25% of
these occurring in the African region. Multi-drug resistant strains which do not respond to first …

Despite well-known limitations, mice remain useful as model animals to study tuberculosis
(TB) pathogenesis, the basic immune response, the extent of lung pathology as well as …

Pioneering studies linking symptomatic disease and cough-mediated release of
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) established the infectious origin of tuberculosis (TB) …

Tuberculosis (TB) control is failing in South Africa (SA), with current notification rates as high
as those reported in the early 1900s.[1, 2] Adjusting for population size, SA remains ranked …

Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), a leading cause of death from infection, completes its life
cycle entirely in humans except for transmission through the air. To begin to understand how …

We believe the mirage de tuberculose phenomenon may be more common than generally
realised. Our findings, published recently in the Proceedings of National Academies of …