Tuberculosis

"Tuberculosis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Any of the infectious diseases of man and other animals caused by species of MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS.

Descriptor ID	D014376
MeSH Number(s)	C01.252.410.040.552.846
Concept/Terms	Tuberculosis Tuberculosis Tuberculoses Koch's Disease Koch Disease Kochs Disease Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection Infection, Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infections, Mycobacterium tuberculosis Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infections

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Tuberculosis".

Diseases [C]
Bacterial Infections and Mycoses [C01]
Bacterial Infections [C01.252]
Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections [C01.252.410]
Actinomycetales Infections [C01.252.410.040]
Mycobacterium Infections [C01.252.410.040.552]
Tuberculosis [C01.252.410.040.552.846]

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publications

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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Tuberculosis" by people in this website by year, and whether "Tuberculosis" was a major or minor topic of these publications.

Bar chart showing 192 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 15 publications in 2020 and 2022

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1995	1	1	2
1996	2	1	3
1997	2	0	2
1998	1	0	1
1999	2	0	2
2000	2	0	2
2001	0	1	1
2002	3	0	3
2003	4	0	4
2004	2	1	3
2005	3	0	3
2006	1	2	3
2007	6	1	7
2008	7	2	9
2009	5	0	5
2010	3	1	4
2011	4	1	5
2012	6	0	6
2013	6	4	10
2014	6	0	6
2015	9	3	12
2016	11	2	13
2017	10	1	11
2018	6	0	6
2019	8	1	9
2020	10	5	15
2021	7	0	7
2022	15	0	15
2023	10	0	10
2024	7	2	9
2025	3	1	4

Below are the most recent publications written about "Tuberculosis" by people in Profiles.

Oluoch PO, Koh EI, Proulx MK, Reames CJ, Papavinasasundaram KG, Murphy KC, Zimmerman MD, Dartois V, Sassetti CM. Chemical genetic interactions elucidate pathways controlling tuberculosis antibiotic efficacy during infection. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2025 Mar 04; 122(9):e2417525122.

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Pullen KM, Finethy R, Ko SB, Reames CJ, Sassetti CM, Lauffenburger DA. Cross-species transcriptomics translation reveals a role for the unfolded protein response in Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. NPJ Syst Biol Appl. 2025 Feb 15; 11(1):19.

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Jaecklein E, Papavinasasundaram K, Ostroff GR, Sassetti C, Soto ER. Targeted delivery of antitubercular drugs using glucan lipid particles. Microbiol Spectr. 2025 Mar 04; 13(3):e0274424.

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Luna MJ, Oluoch PO, Miao J, Culviner P, Papavinasasundaram K, Jaecklein E, Shell SS, Ioerger TR, Fortune SM, Farhat MR, Sassetti CM. Frequently arising ESX-1-associated phase variants influence Mycobacterium tuberculosis fitness in the presence of host and antibiotic pressures. mBio. 2025 Mar 12; 16(3):e0376224.

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Chakraborty B, Laskar AA, Baruah A, Kumar R, Barbhuiya MA. Critical Perspectives on Global Health Policy, Diagnostic Access and Practice Gaps towards a Tuberculosis Free India. Ann Clin Lab Sci. 2024 Nov; 54(6):721-738.

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Simwela NV, Johnston L, Bitar PP, Jaecklein E, Altier C, Sassetti CM, Russell DG. Genome-wide screen of Mycobacterium tuberculosis-infected macrophages revealed GID/CTLH complex-mediated modulation of bacterial growth. Nat Commun. 2024 Oct 29; 15(1):9322.

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Pires DC, Arueira Chaves L, Dantas Cardoso CH, Faria LV, Rodrigues Campos S, Sobreira da Silva MJ, Sequeira Valerio T, Rodrigues Campos M, Emmerick ICM. Effects of low dose computed tomography (LDCT) on lung cancer screening on incidence and mortality in regions with high tuberculosis prevalence: A systematic review. PLoS One. 2024; 19(9):e0308106.

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Mittal E, Prasad GVRK, Upadhyay S, Sadadiwala J, Olive AJ, Yang G, Sassetti CM, Philips JA. Mycobacterium tuberculosis virulence lipid PDIM inhibits autophagy in mice. Nat Microbiol. 2024 Nov; 9(11):2970-2984.

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Irvine EB, Nikolov A, Khan MZ, Peters JM, Lu R, Sixsmith J, Wallace A, van Woudenbergh E, Shin S, Karpinski W, Hsiao JC, Casadevall A, Bryson BD, Cavacini L, Grace PS, Alter G, Fortune SM. Fc-engineered antibodies promote neutrophil-dependent control of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Nat Microbiol. 2024 Sep; 9(9):2369-2382.

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Sinha P, Ezhumalai K, Du X, Ponnuraja C, Dauphinais MR, Gupte N, Sarkar S, Gupta A, Gaikwad S, Thangakunam B, Paradkar M, Christopher DJ, Mave V, Viswanathan V, Ellner JJ, Kornfeld H, Horsburgh CR, Padmapriyadarsini C, Gupte A. Undernourished Household Contacts Are at Increased Risk of Tuberculosis (TB) Disease, but not TB Infection-a Multicenter Prospective Cohort Analysis. Clin Infect Dis. 2024 07 19; 79(1):233-236.

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