Tuberculosis has re-emerged as a global health problem due to co-infection with HIV and the emergence of drug resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. There is a need for a reliable and fast serodiagnostic assay ...

Tuberculosis has re-emerged as a global health threat today. Current tuberculosis diagnosis is too slow in general and unsensitive in HIV burdened populations. Exposure to mycobacterial antigens in a country with a high ...

The current global tuberculosis epidemic has shown the need to urgently replace the aged anti-TB armamentarium. The search for a fast, accurate and reliable diagnosis of active TB has emerged as the spearhead in efforts ...

Mycolic Acids (MAs) are long chain α-alkyl-β-hydroxy fatty acids that form part of the cell wall of Mycobacterium species and a few other genera. They play an important role in steering the host-pathogen relationship to ...

HIV, the causative agent of AIDS, is one of the first retroviruses to infect humans. Controlling this epidemic is extremely challenging. Studies that focus on understanding the biology, biochemistry and structural biology ...