Granulomas are tissue nodules of immune cells that occur in diseases such as tuberculosis and sarcoidosis and can damage many organs. For the first time, a team of researchers at MedUni Vienna has ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – For 70 years, clinicians thought they knew the shape of tuberculosis granulomas in the lungs of patients. Histology — the study of microscopic structures in thin slices of lung ...

Granuloma structure and distribution of the antibiotic BTZ-043 in differently stained tissue sections of two tuberculosis granulomas. The stains show (in z-shaped order from top left to bottom right): ...

Tuberculosis (TB), caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), results in 1.5 million deaths every year, but as many as two billion people may be infected with Mtb and yet remain ...

The immune response against tuberculosis (TB) infections develops at least twice as slowly as that triggered by other infectious diseases that affect the lungs. A study in non-human primates by ...

In an effort to duplicate these results, we have carried out another series of tests. In repeating the study, we gave special attention to variables likely to have accounted for differences between ...

Even after completing treatment for tuberculosis (TB), some patients may remain vulnerable to further lung infections. Scientists at A*STAR Infectious Diseases Labs (A*STAR IDL) have recently ...

GRANULOMA formation is one of the significant reaction patterns of the body in disease. Characterized by tubercles of closely packed epithelioid cells, granulomas are the basic alteration in such ...