If the Kalamazoo Central High School student with tuberculosis turns out to be a typical TB case, there is a less than 1 percent chance of another student or staff member will be diagnosed with ...

DENTON (CBSDFW.COM) – A Denton High School student again tested positive for active tuberculosis in the second round of more specialized screening for the disease, county health officials said ...

Traditionally, active tuberculosis (TB) disease has been classified as either primary or secondary, reflecting the time between initial infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) and the ...

Some 200,000 of the 680,000 annual AIDS deaths are a result of secondary TB infections. More than a dozen antibiotics and other drugs are used to treat TB.

Blood tests for active TB not accurate or cost-effective ... Serology use would also generate 102,000 more DALYs and 32,000 more secondary TB cases compared to microscopy.

During the Pre-World TB Day press conference organised by the Stop TB Partnership Nigeria in Abuja, the USAID Nigeria Team Lead, Dr Temitayo Odusote said: “We have seen the number of notified TB ...

In two of the trials, INH prophylaxis was administered for a duration of less than six months, while in the other six it was administered for six months or longer. The duration of follow-up among ...