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Rod-shaped Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes TB, glowing green against a dark background in a scanning electron micrograph.

Which Strains of Tuberculosis Are the Most Infectious?

August 1, 2024

Shared geographic origin between TB strain and human host could amplify risk for infection

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Defeating Despair

February 17, 2022

Lancet World Psychiatric Association Commission on global depression maps route to hopeful future

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Who Gets Sick with TB?

June 3, 2021

Deficient immune cells implicated in TB disease progression

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Striking Link

May 13, 2020

Gene variant is common in Peru, absent from European genomes