There are many things we’ve learned from studying the ancient Egyptians. One especially fascinating discovery was evidence of ...

The drugs, sutezolid and delpazolid, have demonstrated strong antimicrobial activity and a notably better safety profile ...

The team, led by Robert Koch’s close friend Carl Flügge, found that guinea pigs placed nearby rarely caught tuberculosis as a result. Perhaps, Flügge thought, TB didn’t depend on dust at all.

Dr Robert Koch was a pivotal figure in the golden age of microbiology. It was the German bacteriologist who discovered the bacteria that causes anthrax, septicaemia, tuberculosis and cholera, and ...

The romantic disease. Monday, March 24th, was World Tuberculosis Day, which celebrates the discovery of mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacteria that causes tuberculosis, by Robert Koch in 1882. At ...

And so in 1882, when Robert Koch proved that tuberculosis was caused by a bacteria, it went from being this beautiful disease to sort of a body horror.

A major breakthrough came when Dr. Robert Koch identified Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacteria responsible for TB, on March 24, 1882. This discovery led to advances in diagnostics and treatment, ...

The day serves to recognise Dr Robert Koch's 1882 achievement of identifying the TB bacterial pathogen because this discovery enabled effective medical diagnosis and therapy for the disease.

KUALA LUMPUR: On World Tuberculosis Day 2025, the Health Ministry reaffirms its goal to eliminate tuberculosis as a public health concern by 2035.

World TB Day commemorates the day in 1882 when Dr Robert Koch, a German physician and microbiologist, announced his discovery of bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the cause of tuberculosis.

World TB Day on March 24 raises awareness about the disease and commemorates Robert Koch's discovery of the source bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis.