A recent study confirms that the 100-year-old BCG vaccine does not protect against COVID-19, challenging early assumptions ...

Currently, the only approved vaccine for TB is the century-old Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine, which is widely used despite its effectiveness in adults being inconsistent. The study found ...

A live-attenuated tuberculosis (TB) vaccine candidate in development at Texas Biomedical Research Institute (Texas Biomed) ...

Michigan has the only persisting bovine tuberculosis outbreak in wild deer anywhere in the U.S. — and it occasionally spills ...

Following the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin shortage, the first patient with bladder cancer has been dosed with recombinant ...

A live-attenuated tuberculosis (TB) vaccine candidate in development at Texas Biomedical Research Institute (Texas Biomed) ...

Best known for its role in tuberculosis prevention, the BCG vaccine is based on a harmless strain of bacteria related the one that causes tuberculosis. A generic drug with over 100 years of ...

A Tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in Kansas City, Kansas, has people on edge, with not much public knowledge about the disease or ...

Spreading easily through the air, Mycobacterium tuberculosis can establish a chronic infection in human lungs, which can turn into a deadly respiratory disease. A safe vaccine called BCG ...

Mycobacterium tuberculosis spreads through airborne transmission and can establish persistent lung infections that lead to severe respiratory disease. The widely used Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) ...