Tuberculosis is a communicable infectious disease caused by bacteria of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex, most commonly affecting the lungs but capable of involving virtually any organ in extrapulmonary forms. It spreads chiefly through airborne droplet nuclei expelled by people with active pulmonary disease, …
Tuberculosis is a communicable infectious disease caused by bacteria of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex, most commonly affecting the lungs but capable of involving virtually any organ in extrapulmonary forms. It spreads chiefly through airborne droplet nuclei expelled by people with active pulmonary disease, and infection may remain latent or progress to symptomatic disease, particularly where immunity is compromised, as in HIV co-infection. Diagnosis combines clinical, microbiological, molecular, and imaging methods, and treatment requires prolonged multidrug regimens; the emergence of rifampicin-resistant and multidrug-resistant disease, often linked to mutations in the rpoB gene, complicates control and underscores the need for resistance characterization and new diagnostics and vaccines. Tuberculosis also affects animals, where Mycobacterium bovis causes bovine tuberculosis with zoonotic and immunodiagnostic implications. Research relevant to this topic includes rpoB mutations and rifampicin resistance in multidrug-resistant tuberculosis with HIV co-infection, pseudotumoral and hepatic tuberculosis, extrapulmonary and gastrointestinal complications such as peritonitis and duodenocolic fistula, the performance of national control programmes, determinants of patient knowledge, novel imaging and nanoadjuvant vaccine approaches, and cytokine responses and immunodiagnosis in Mycobacterium bovis infection. Methods span clinical case studies, programme evaluation, laboratory and immunological research. The journal publishes peer-reviewed research on the diagnosis, treatment, resistance, and control of tuberculosis.
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The 12 articles above have been cited 14 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.
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