TB tests use phlegm — not the easiest thing to get or work with. It takes time for results. And there can be false negatives ...

A global team of scientists and clinicians found that a cheap, easy-to-use test for tuberculosis was just as good, if not ...

The MiniDock MTB could expand access to molecular testing in peripheral health centers ...

Drugs to treat tuberculosis have been around for more than 75 years, yet it remains the world's top infectious disease killer ...

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 ...

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 new skin test for tuberculosis infection has proven safe, easy to administer and accurate in two Phase III clinical trials, according to research presented at the ATS 2016 International Conference.

QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus (QFT-Plus), the fourth generation of the modern gold standard for TB detection, receives Chinese NMPA approval as test for active tuberculosis detection World Health ...

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) ...