Some patients at KwaZulu-Natal hospitals are donating lung tissue for use in TB research. Sue Segar tracks what happens to these tissue samples and explores why these samples are so important to ...
Pulmonary tuberculosis or TB is a bacterial infection that mainly impacts the lungs and it is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, a bacteria that spreads through the air when an infected person ...
An estimated 56,000 people in South Africa and 1.25 million around the world died of tuberculosis in 2023, according to just-published figures from the World Health Organization. This means that in ...