A hypertensive emergency is when a patient has dangerously high blood pressure that causes complications such as organ failure. Malignant hypertension is one type of hypertensive emergency. There is disagreement between doctors and diagnostic guides about how to characterize malignant hypertension. Some refer to the sudden onset of […]

Although almost all mycobacterial species are saprophytic environmental organisms, a few, such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis, have evolved to cause transmissible human infection. By analyzing the recent emergence and spread of the environmental organism M. abscessus through the global cystic fibrosis population, we have defined key, generalizable steps involved […]