Dr. Carpenter is researching how T cells respond to tuberculosis in the hopes of preventing active TB disease.

The assay utilized ATCC standards of Quantitative Genomic DNA from Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain H37Ra (ATCC 25177DQ) and Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis strain K-10 (ATCC BAA-968D).

Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) and mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) are two distinct types of bacteria that can cause infections in the lungs and other parts of the body. Learn more here.

TB developing from mycobacterium bovis transmission to humans has become quite rare, though. Today, less than 2% of reported human tuberculosis cases come from M. bovis.

Progression from infection to pulmonary tuberculosis follows distinct timeline Scientists follow 150 infected adolescents to tease out details of disease progression Date: November 16, 2017 Source ...

A recent phase 2b clinical trial in South Africa found that Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) revaccination did not prevent sustained Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in initially ...

Like SARS-CoV-2, the causative pathogen of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), Mycobacterium tuberculosis causes severe and often fatal lung infection called tuberculosis.

Mice infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis are resistant to acute disease caused by secondary infection with SARS-CoV-2. PLOS Pathogens, 2022; 18 (3): e1010093 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1010093 ...