WHO recommends near point-of-care tests, tongue swabs, and sputum pooling for TB diagnosis: Geneva Wednesday, March 11, 2026, 14:00 Hrs [IST] The World Health Organization (WHO) i ...

THE depressing effect of measles on tuberculin sensitivity and its possible adverse effect on the clinical course of tuberculosis has been recognized for years. 1 More recently, similar changes in ...

TB Alliance has initiated a pivotal clinical trial, SimpliciTB (pronounced: sim-plis-i-tee-bee), that will evaluate whether a new four-drug regimen can treat most types of tuberculosis (TB) including ...

Two new interferon-gamma blood test assays to detect latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) showed customers were exposed to a supermarket employee in Holland who had smear-positive tuberculosis, while ...

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) ...

Treating all household contacts of someone with tuberculosis (TB) helped prevent active TB disease across age groups in the real world, but the effectiveness was highest when treating individuals who ...

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 ...