Once thought to have originated in cows and spread through dust, the surprising evolutionary story of tuberculosis reveals why it's so hard to stamp out this ancient disease, writes Carl Zimmer ...

Few diseases are predominantly airborne. Most diseases that spread through the air are also contagious through larger respiratory droplet transmission ... the MMR vaccine. Tuberculosis, or ...

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 ...

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 ...

These microscopic droplet nuclei can remain suspended ... While anyone can potentially contract tuberculosis through airborne exposure, several key factors significantly increase transmission ...

In his extensive written evidence, Professor Clive Beggs discussed the historical controversy surrounding airborne versus droplet-borne diseases ... This would also help to protect against flu, RSV, ...

See also miliary TB. Airborne particles resulting from a potentially infectious (microorganism-bearing) droplet from which most of the liquid has evaporated, allowing the particle to remain suspended ...

Each droplet contained a different strain of bacteria with ... they discovered a family of several hundred that seem to become important only when the tuberculosis bacteria face airborne conditions.

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

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 ...