A new test shows promising results for detecting latent tuberculosis infection in resource-limited settings. This is ...

Tuberculosis, or TB, has a new enemy in the form of a brand new diagnostic tool that reveals, within minutes, if someone is affected by the disease. Affecting large percentages of the developing world ...

First year health science students will need TB testing and screening prior to or at arrival. At this time, UHCS is providing a TB blood test (IGRA). The cost of this test is almost always covered by ...

Two research studies in this week's PLoS Medicine suggest that a new automated DNA test for tuberculosis (Xpert MTB/RIF), which can detect TB within 2 hours and has been endorsed by the World Health ...

Scientists have developed a new fluorescent probe that can be used to quickly detect tuberculosis bacteria from a sputum sample -- using just a homemade LED box and a camera phone. Nature News reports ...

DENVER — New tests show the globe-trotting American lawyer who caused an international health scare by traveling with a dangerous form of tuberculosis has a less severe form of the disease, doctors ...

QIAGEN QGEN recently reached a major landmark in the field of tuberculosis (TB) testing. On World TB Day, the company announced that since the lime of its launch, the company’s QuantiFERON blood test ...

It provides rapid information on drug resistance that takes up to six weeks using standard methods, US scientists report in the journal, Nature Communications. The bacteria emit a unique gas signature ...

But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stood by its earlier test and its action to isolate Speaker. And both Speaker’s doctor in Denver and an official with the CDC who appeared at a news ...