TB toxin is injected under the skin, which produces a lump if the ... to seven days for a reaction to appear, and the test gives a false positive result if someone has been vaccinated against ...

All cases detected positive ... test such as Xpert MTB/RIF assay. Any bacteriologically confirmed or clinically diagnosed case of TB involving organs other than the lungs, for example, pleura, lymph ...

An experimental drug now in clinical trials as a cancer treatment could help boost the power of first-line tuberculosis (TB) ...

A study presented at ESCMID Global 2025 has demonstrated that an AI-powered lung ultrasound outperforms human experts by 9% ...

Mycobacteria are the world's most deadly bacteria --c ausing infectious diseases including tuberculosis (TB), which alone kills more than one million people each year. New drugs to fight these ...

A pioneering study presented today at ESCMID Global 2025 has demonstrated that an AI-powered lung ultrasound outperforms human experts by 9% in diagnosing pulmonary tuberculosis (TB).

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

A point-of-care lung ultrasound system connected to a smartphone combined with a suite of deep learning models outperformed ...

In a Johns Hopkins Children’s Center study, the addition of navitoclax to the standard TB treatment significantly increased ...

April 15 (UPI) --New York University researchers say a simple, gene-based blood test has ... has escaped the skin and spread to other parts of the body." Doctors who see a positive ctDNA test ...

While probably years away from widespread use, a test for TB that relies on a simple tongue swab instead of a person having ...

While likely years away from widespread use, a test for TB that relies on a simple tongue swab instead of a person having to cough up sputum is showing promise. Spotlight takes stock of how the test ...