Tulane University researchers have developed an enhanced CRISPR-based tuberculosis test that works with a simple tongue swab, ...

New Hampshire health officials are warning the public after they identified two people with tuberculosis who were in ...

Electrical & Biomedical Engineering (EBME) Professor Xiaoshan Zhu and his colleagues have won a U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Phase 2 award to develop this test after proving their concept ...

The test can be administered on a mouth swab instead of sputum and doesn’t require lab facilities ...

Using QuantiFERON-TB Gold as the sole screening test before starting biologic therapy reduces TB diagnoses compared with ...

QIAGEN QGEN recently reached a major landmark in the field of tuberculosis (TB) testing. On World TB Day, the company announced that since the lime of its launch, the company’s QuantiFERON blood test ...

Healthcare workers should be tested for tuberculosis (TB) when they are hired and should be retested only after an occupational exposure, according to new guidelines issued by the Centers for Disease ...

The Virginia Department of Health is working with Rockingham County schools after a case of tuberculosis was discovered.

New Hampshire health officials have identified two people with tuberculosis who were in Manchester and Nashua while ...

A CRISPR mouth-swab test could transform TB screening with rapid, low-cost detection in low-resource and asymptomatic cases.