Among this cohort, 24 (7.0%) participants were sputum smear microscopy (AFB) positive, with an estimated population prevalence of 4.6–10.3%. Sixty-three (18.4%) participants had either a positive ...
Tuberculosis, also known as TB, is an illness that affects the lungs and is caused by a type of bacteria called Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex. TB can spread when a person with the illness coughs, ...
Tulane University researchers have developed an enhanced CRISPR-based tuberculosis test that works with a simple tongue swab, ...
The Food and Drug Administration is allowing the maker of a tuberculosis test to expand its product's claims, hoping to help physicians more rapidly determine whether TB patients are contagious.
Background. Antibiotic-tolerant bacterial persistence prevents treatment shortening in drug-susceptible tuberculosis, and accumulation of intracellular lipid bodies has been proposed to identify a ...
This phase III two-sided equivalence trial compares 4 and 6 months of TB treatment (2 months of daily treatment with INH, rifampicin, ethambutol and pyrazinamide followed by either 2 or 4 months of ...
Lung cancer will kill roughly 159,000 people in the United States this year, making it the deadliest malignancy. About 85 percent of patients are diagnosed too late for surgery, and they generally ...
We conducted a prospective clinic-based study of newly-diagnosed HIV-infected adults who presented for voluntary HIV counseling and testing from October 2010 to May 2011. Enrollment, specimen ...