Osaka, Japan - The bacterial genus Mycobacterium has the dubious honor of including species responsible for two of the best-known chronic human infectious diseases: tuberculosis and leprosy. But ...

The relaxing steam of a hot shower is a true luxury — unless of course, those tiny hot water droplets contain a strain of infectious bacteria. In some places throughout the United States, this might ...

Tuberculosis, caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) kills upwards of 1.6 million people a year, making it one of the leading causes of death by an infectious agent worldwide -- and ...