Background. Contact screening is an essential component of all tuberculosis control strategies. We hypothesize that time-to-detection (TTD) in liquid culture of spontaneously produced sputum samples ...

Global control of tuberculosis is hampered by slow, insensitive diagnostic methods, particularly for the detection of drug-resistant forms and in patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection.

Tuberculosis (TB) remains a leading global infectious disease killer, second only to COVID-19¹. It is an airborne disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria and is responsible for infecting ...

A team of faculty has discovered new technology that will quickly and easily detect active Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) infection antibodies. A team of faculty from Wayne State University has ...

To many, tuberculosis (TB) may seem like a disease from a bygone era. But it still claims more than one million lives every year. And the problem is growing worse as Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the ...

Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigen detection has long been viewed positively as an option for TB diagnosis as this has the potential advantage of reflecting mycobacterial burden while remaining ...

In low-incidence, high-resource settings, Xpert Mycobacterium Tuberculosis/Rifampicin Ultra (Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra [Xpert-Ultra]) testing, an automated nucleic acid ...

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 ...

Rats are able to detect whether a child has tuberculosis (TB), and are much more successful at doing this than a commonly used basic microscopy test. Rats are able to detect whether a child has ...