Through Bourouiba's work with fluid and droplet physics ... opening the way to weakening its airborne defenses. "The idea of waiting to find someone with tuberculosis, then treating and curing ...

Riley et al. 4,5 have shown that tubercle bacilli in droplet nuclei can infect guinea pigs kept in a tuberculosis ward. The size of an airborne particle that can enter the human lung and establish ...

Detecting TB early goes a long way toward avoiding some of the disease's worst outcomes and preventing its spread to others.

Each droplet contained a different strain ... hundred that seem to become important only when the tuberculosis bacteria face airborne conditions. The genes help them adapt to the realistic fluid ...

Following standard guidance on droplet infection ... that years earlier had confirmed the airborne transmission of tuberculosis, with an exhaust pipe from infected ward patients making remote ...