by Andrea Marra | Mar 20, 2026 | CRO Laboratory Services, Pharmaceutical
Despite decades of research and treatment options, tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the world’s most devastating infectious diseases, claiming more than one million lives each year and continuing to challenge global public health efforts.1, 2, 3 Drug resistance,...
by Microbiologics | Mar 22, 2021 | Clinical, Molecular
About every 22 seconds, someone dies from Tuberculosis. As the deadliest bacterial infection worldwide, Tuberculosis causes or contributes to 1-1.5 million deaths per year, recently surpassing HIV as the deadliest single infectious agent. Around ten million people...
by microbiologics | Nov 16, 2017 | Clinical
Photo: Drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Source: CDC) The largest recent outbreak of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in the United States is currently unfolding in the Minnesota Hmong community. Many Hmong elders were resettled in the Twin Cities...
by microbiologics | Nov 23, 2015 | Uncategorized
Written By: Robert C. Jerris, Ph.D. D (ABMM) Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA A simple tubing trip down a rushing river; an encounter with a rock resulting in a small abrasion on the knee; a life threatening...
