As the Atlanta lawyer with a dangerous form of tuberculosis began treatment At National Jewish Medical and Research Center in Denver, government officials and the patient provided sharply ...

The most common test for active TB is called the ‘sputum smear microscopy.’ That’s when your coughed-up saliva and mucus are examined under a microscope for the presence of TB bacteria ...

James Tytko presents science news and we’re putting tuberculosis under the microscope. Skip to content. Watch Live. Home. News. Sport. Business. Innovation. Culture. Arts. Travel. Earth ...

Low-income countries struggling to keep tuberculosis under control might get a boost from an unlikely source — giant African rats. The big rodents spotted hundreds of TB-positive sputum samples ...

This makes them easy to see and identify under a microscope. ... You're high-risk or positive for TB. If a skin or blood test comes back positive for tuberculosis, ...

A tiny filter could have a big impact around the world in the fight against tuberculosis. Using the traditional microscope-based diagnosis method as a starting point, a University of Florida lung ...

Reactivated tuberculosis. Cases of scrofula in the U.S. are often linked to latent tuberculosis. ... Another testing option is to look at fluid from the swollen nodes under a microscope.

Kamariza is working on a cheaper diagnostic test, a fluorescent tag that binds to a product of living TB bacteria and makes them quickly identifiable under a microscope.

This week we’re putting TB - tuberculosis - under the microscope. Show more. James Tytko, Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs.