The Virginia Department of Health is working with Rockingham County schools after a case of tuberculosis was discovered.
In February 1906, teburculosis killed 372 people across the state. A monthly newsletter from the Indiana Department of Health noted the disease, labeled as “consumption” in several references, created ...
Despite recent advances in screening and diagnosis, tuberculosis remains the deadliest infectious disease. An estimated 10·8 ...
Using QuantiFERON-TB Gold as the sole screening test before starting biologic therapy reduces TB diagnoses compared with ...
A student has tested positive for tuberculosis.  After receiving a notification from Abilene Taylor County Public Health on ...
PREVIOUS COVERAGE: Health officials investigate tuberculosis case at East Lincoln High School The county first warned people ...
The test can be administered on a mouth swab instead of sputum and doesn’t require lab facilities ...
Introduction In high tuberculosis (TB)-burden countries, considerable transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb) ...
R esearchers at Tulane University in the US have created an improved clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-based tuberculosis (TB) test that can be administered using a ...
Tuberculosis, or TB, is an infectious disease that mainly affects the lungs but can also spread to other parts of the body.
Tulane University researchers have developed an enhanced CRISPR-based tuberculosis test that works with a simple tongue swab, ...
From the currently used sputum testing, soon tuberculosis screening can be done via a simple tongue swab, according to a ...