Chemists found a way to identify a complex sugar molecule in the cell walls of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the world's deadliest pathogen. This labeling could lead to simpler, faster TB tests.

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Tuberculosis, the world's deadliest infectious disease, is estimated to infect around 10 million people each year, and kills more than 1 million annually. Once established in the lungs, the bacteria's ...

May 5, 2025 — Chemists found a way to identify a complex sugar molecule in the cell walls of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the world's deadliest pathogen. This labeling could lead to simpler ...

The pathogen that causes the disease, Mycobacterium tuberculosis ... "Knowing the molecular details of how M. tuberculosis cell envelope components manipulate the host response may inform new ...

"Mycobacterium tuberculosis has a really elaborate cell envelope compared to other bacteria, and it's a rich structure that's composed of a lot of different glycans," Smelyansky says. "Something ...

the most notorious and prevalent of which is Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis), the microbe that causes TB. After labeling the glycan, the researchers were able to visualize where it is ...