and the National TB Controllers Association recently released updated recommendations for TB Screening, Testing and Treatment of Health Care Personnel. In response, UAB Campus and UAB Medicine have ...

The Galveston County Health District is investigating and offering TB testing to those who may have been exposed.

Extensively drug-resistant (XDR-TB) strains have been detected in at least 55 countries worldwide. These data substantiate the need for rapid and reliable methods for drug-susceptibility testing ...

Advising patients against hiding tuberculosis due to stigma, the district health department on Wednesday announced that the C-Y TB test, which checks for TB, is available for free at a dozen ...

A rapid diagnostic test for tuberculosis (TB) has been approved for the first time by the World Health Organization (WHO). The assay can identify the tuberculosis-causing pathogen Mycobacterium ...

The TST was deferred in children who had received Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination within the preceding 6 months, had a draining and/or inflamed BCG vaccination site, or had completed a ...

Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra, produced by US-based molecular diagnostics company Cepheid, "is the first test for TB diagnosis and antibiotic susceptibility testing that meets WHO's prequalification ...