It’s either inaccurate — missing up to half of all cases — or requires expensive laboratories that are not widely available ...

Drugs to treat tuberculosis have been around for more than 75 years, yet it remains the world's top infectious disease killer ...

The MiniDock MTB could expand access to molecular testing in peripheral health centers ...

TB tests use phlegm — not the easiest thing to get or work with. It takes time for results. And there can be false negatives ...

Led by researchers from Heidelberg Faculty of Medicine at Heidelberg University and the University of California, San ...

A UCSF- and UC Irvine-led study found the portable MiniDock MTB test can match laboratory accuracy for tuberculosis diagnosis in under half an hour, even for patients unable to produce sputum samples.

About 1.5 million people died of tuberculosis (TB) in 2017, making it the most lethal infectious disease worldwide. A growing rise in drug-resistant TB is a major obstacle to successfully treating the ...

After an extensive review by the CDC’s internal Laboratory Safety Improvement Working Group, CDC Director Tom Frieden, MD, MPH, has lifted the moratorium on a specific type of material transfer for ...

12.1 United States Medicare System: Clinical Laboratory Fees Schedule ...

Michigan is taking center stage in the nation’s fight against drug-resistant tuberculosis with the creation of the National Tuberculosis Molecular Surveillance Center at Michigan’s state laboratory in ...