Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) and Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) are two distinct types of bacteria that can cause infections in the lungs and other parts of the body. Belonging to the same ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Microbial diversity was more prevalent in patients with cured vs. treatment-resistant nontuberculosis ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Researchers at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo have developed a new inhalable form of tuberculosis (TB) treatment that could ...

Q I suffered extensive fatigue that I had attributed to a COVID-19 infection. Then a lung culture found something called mycobacterium avium complex. Would you kindly consider discussing this? I ...

In a recent article published in Emerging Infectious Diseases journal, researchers performed a retrospective cross-sectional study in Ontario, Canada, to determine the prevalence of nontuberculous ...

AN2 Therapeutics Inc.’s decision to pause enrollment in the phase III portion of its phase II/III testing epetraborole in treatment-refractory Mycobacterium avium complex lung disease, citing ...

In a classic example of scientific problem solving, scientists from the Hackensack Meridian Center for Discovery and Innovation (CDI) and colleagues have published a paper introducing a promising new ...

For most Americans, the letters "NTM" don’t mean anything. But for tens of thousands of people across the country, they represent something serious: a chronic lung disease that’s often overlooked, ...

Rather than battle bacterial infection or reduce sticky buildup in the lungs, these alveolar macrophages (pink) taken from the lungs of a sick child wander aimlessly, the result of a newly discovered ...

Researchers at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo have developed a new inhalable form of tuberculosis (TB) treatment that could significantly reduce the ...