A team of researchers led by Rice University, in collaboration with colleagues in Mozambique and The University of Texas MD ...

Superintendent Dr. Ann Jackson said the district was notified of the case late Thursday. Administrators say they quickly coordinated with state health officials to identify close contacts, notify ...

The Virginia Department of Health is working with Rockingham County schools after a case of tuberculosis was discovered.

Jasper City Schools officials are responding to a tuberculosis case that was identified at Jasper High School on Friday. School will continue as normal with “deep cleaning and sanitizing,” and ...

new portable machines are being deployed to speed up detection and curb the silent transmission of the disease ...

Despite recent advances in screening and diagnosis, tuberculosis remains the deadliest infectious disease. An estimated 10·8 ...

Local health officials are working with Rockingham County Public Schools to identify contacts of someone who had a confirmed positive case of tuberculosis.

Using QuantiFERON-TB Gold as the sole screening test before starting biologic therapy reduces TB diagnoses compared with ...

A student has tested positive for tuberculosis.  After receiving a notification from Abilene Taylor County Public Health on ...

The test can be administered on a mouth swab instead of sputum and doesn’t require lab facilities ...

Introduction In high tuberculosis (TB)-burden countries, considerable transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb) ...

R esearchers at Tulane University in the US have created an improved clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-based tuberculosis (TB) test that can be administered using a ...