Your healthcare provider may also recommend a TB test — either a blood test or a skin test. For the skin test, you will need ...

A shortened, all-oral drug regimen worked well for some patients with pre-extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (pre-XDR TB ...

In Germany, it is often overlooked that diseases once thought to be defeated, like tuberculosis, still exist and that the ...

DeKalb County has the highest rate of tuberculosis cases in Georgia. Next week, it’s opening a new clinic to help test for the disease and treat it.

Some patients with highly drug-resistant tuberculosis could benefit from a shorter treatment with fewer drugs, while others ...

TB can be cured, but ridding the body of the bug often takes many months and usually requires taking four or more medicines.

Secretary general of the Ministry of Home Affairs, Tomsi Tohir, has emphasized the need for regional governments to take ...

Researchers have identified two new drug families that block a key tuberculosis (TB) enzyme, offering hope for novel ...

Current treatment for bedaquiline-resistant tuberculosis is linked with poor microbiological responses, unfavorable clinical ...

Newer anti-TB drugs like Bedaquiline, Delamanid, and Pretomanid may be restricted to NTEP, impacting TB treatment ...

A clinical trial is bringing new hope to the fight against drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB), a recently published study has revealed. The studies, published in ‘The Lancet Infectious Diseases’ and the ...

Yondela Kolweni has to hold down her son, who screams and fights when it is time for his daily life-saving TB tablets--a painful reminder of her battle with the world's top infectious killer disease.