Drugs to treat tuberculosis have been around for more than 75 years, yet it remains the world's top infectious disease killer ...
A global team of scientists and clinicians found that a cheap, easy-to-use test for tuberculosis was just as good, if not ...
TB tests use phlegm — not the easiest thing to get or work with. It takes time for results. And there can be false negatives ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tuberculosis, or TB, is a disease that infects nearly 11 million people worldwide, killing some 1.25 million of them every year, ...
Researchers in the UC Davis Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine have created a new tuberculosis blood test that can detect the active, infectious form of the disease. The discovery enables ...
A TB blood test can find out whether you have the Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria in your body. Whether you need to get tested and how often depends on your specific circumstances. A blood test ...
A cohort study evaluating a tuberculosis (TB) prevention program among patients who received biologic therapy found a low risk for incident infection. Pretreatment screening with QuantiFERON-TB (QFT) ...