Sentences with phrase «tb lung infections»

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«Because the bacterium that causes TB can lie dormant in someone's lung for months or even years before it causes disease, we had no way of knowing whether a TB case we have just diagnosed was a recent infection — suggesting the outbreak is still going on — or whether the person was infected years ago.»

Infection normally begins in the lungs as TB and can spread to the brain and spinal cord, causing swelling and restricting blood flow.

TB is known for trying to block activation of T cells by infected dendritic cells, two kinds of which are primarily involved in fighting infection: dendritic cells that migrate from the lungs to the lymph nodes, and those that already reside in the lymph nodes.

In multiple trials of mice with both active and chronic TB infections, researchers report that one version of the new drug — an analog known as 1599 — was as good as or better than current TB drugs at reducing levels of the bacteria in the lungs of mice.

HIV, which destroys the immune system, helps TB in several ways, turning latent TB infections active and allowing the bug to spread outside the lungs.

And even people with «active» TB typically confine the infection to the lungs and can be cured with antibiotics.

Caused by a bacterial infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTb), TB most commonly affects the lungs but can affect any organ in the body.

This strain showed a highly virulent phenotype, with rapid multiplication during the early stage of infection in a murine model of TB with excessive lung inflammation, and infection with this strain resulted in more rapid death of mice than infection with the reference H37Rv strain.