We searched for evidence from studies known as 'clinical trials' that compared rapid TB tests with traditional methods of testing for TB, like smear microscopy and culture. We summarised the findings ...

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 ...

A new test shows promising results for detecting latent tuberculosis infection in resource-limited settings. This is according to a study from Karolinska Institutet, published in the journal Clinical ...

Researchers have developed a highly sensitive blood test that can find traces of the bacteria that causes tuberculosis (TB) in infants a year before they develop the deadly disease, according to a new ...

For those living in affluent countries, it’s easy to forget about tuberculosis, which seems like a disease of the Victorian era. In the U.S., thanks to investments in public health and TB surveillance ...

PACHECO, Calif. -- Public health officials in the Northern California's Contra Costa County are advising anyone who has spent time inside California Grand Casino in Pacheco since 2018 to consider ...

Tuberculosis is both curable and preventable, yet each year, it still kills more people than any other infectious disease.

Last week, activists and patients won a breakthrough in the fight against the world’s deadliest infectious disease: tuberculosis. Cepheid, a medical equipment manufacturer owned by the multinational ...

In a large household cohort, diabetes mellitus in TB patients did not increase tuberculin skin test infection and was linked ...