Tuberculosis (TB) was the leading cause of death in the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries. By 1900, TB — which ...

Explore the complete guide to tuberculosis, ... Persistent cough lasting three weeks or longer, often producing blood-tinged sputum Chest pain, ...

Current treatment for bedaquiline-resistant tuberculosis is linked with poor microbiological responses, unfavorable clinical ...

When sputum is swallowed instead of coughed up, your doctor can retrieve it from your stomach. The collected sputum is sent to a lab, ... You have TB outside of your lungs.

The gold standard is to use sputum, or mucus in the lungs, to test for TB. New technology, called the GeneXpert, was developed by the Cepheid company in the U.S.

Broger T, Koeppel L, Huerga H, et al. Diagnostic yield of urine lipoarabinomannan and sputum tuberculosis tests in people living with HIV: a systematic review and meta-analysis of individual ...

DeKalb County is opening a new high-tech TB clinic to address the highest number of TB cases in Georgia, with 52 cases ...

Bed Rest And Sputum Tests: Inside Chicago's Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium. Former patients recall the tests, treatments, and trauma nearly 250,000 Chicagoans experienced over the sanitarium's ...