If you are identified as a contact at risk from TB, then you will be routinely invited for screening. Screening will consist of a skin test to determine if your immune system recognises TB.

Farmers who attended IFA's TB meeting in Corrin Mart, Fermoy last week aired their concerns around the current spread of TB.

In response, UAB Campus and UAB Medicine have updated its policy. UAB will no longer require routine annual TB skin testing for most existing employees, effective immediately. Employees who have been ...

In 1907 – 1908, Clemens von Pirquet and Charles Mantoux developed the tuberculosis skin test, in which tuberculin (extracts of the tuberculosis bacillus) is injected under the skin, and the body ...

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is the most effective strategy to control tuberculosis (TB) among patients with HIV infection. The tuberculin skin test (TST) was the only available method to identify LTBI. The aim of the present ...

Ranchi: Skin TB testing is all set to start at the govt hospitals across the district from next month for detecting tuberculosis infections quickly and efficiently. According to experts, the new ...

Indian Health Services, Yakama Tribal Health and the Yakima Health District are collaborating to address the increase in ...