The Elecsys IGRA TB test expands global access to tuberculosis infection testing, advancing progress toward the World Health ...

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, ...

The test also showed high sensitivity in detecting TB in respiratory (93%), pediatric stool (83%) and adult spinal fluid samples (93%). With children, HIV patients and those with extrapulmonary TB ...

Improved diagnostic tools for tuberculosis that are suitable for use in peripheral health centers are essential for reducing the persistent gap between estimated and notified cases. The diagnostic ...

As a family practitioner in a solo practice, I am occasionally asked to do TB screening tests. The requests are so infrequent that it is difficult to rationalize intradermal purified protein ...

BANGKOK, Thailand — Filipino tuberculosis (TB) specialist Rugaiya Calapis once asked her patient, a 32-year-old man using the ...

For 2007, the WHO estimated 511,000 cases of multidrug-resistant (MDR)-TB, representing approximately 5% of all TB cases worldwide. Extensively drug-resistant (XDR-TB) strains have been detected in at ...

The Fulton County Board of Health sent a letter to parents of a county high school to inform them that students and staff might have been exposed to someone diagnosed with tuberculosis.

Students and staff identified as having likely close contact with the person diagnosed with TB will receive a separate letter with additional information.

Tuberculosis, or TB, is a disease that infects nearly 11 million people worldwide, killing some 1.25 million of them every year, per data from the World Health Organization. A person infected with the ...