Medicare may cover the costs of a purified protein derivative (PPD) test if a person has symptoms or has been exposed to tuberculosis (TB). If not, Medicare will likely deny coverage as it would ...

The vaccine can cause a false positive TB skin test reaction. Source: Centers for Disease Control Reach Tammy Ayer at [email protected]. Local journalism is essential. Give directly to The ...

People who have a strongly positive skin test and/or evidence of TB infection found on a chest X-ray, or who are unwell, will be investigated further by a specialist doctor and may be given a ...

Sales of the QuantiFERON latent TB test grew about 15% CER as global adoption continues to shift from the skin test to this ...

Infants born to mothers with TB. HIV-positive people. Organ transplant recipients. For children under two years, the Mantoux test (tuberculin skin test) is preferred. Older children and adults undergo ...

A TB reactor animal is defined as an animal where the manual interpretation field for a skin test is positive with the first test date being taken as the time at which the animal became a reactor. The ...

The Xpert MTB/Ultra molecular diagnostic test may become a viable option for detecting tuberculosis (TB) in the stool of adults with HIV, according to the results of a recent study.

New York University researchers say a simple, gene-based blood test has shown to be highly accurate in predicting whether ...

This handheld device is the first that can detect tuberculosis in saliva, in addition to blood and sputum samples, an important breakthrough for testing children and HIV patients, who struggle to ...

The Xpert MTB/Ultra molecular diagnostic test for stool samples, until now recommended only for children, could be established as an additional test for diagnosing tuberculosis in adults living with ...