Latent TB can also complicate treatment for potential health issues that happen later in life, he says. That’s why it’s important to identify and treat latent TB.

Until recently, the only test to identify latent tuberculosis infection was the tuberculin skin test. 7 However, a test measuring the release of interferon-γ in whole blood in response to ...

In latent TB, the patient is infected by a bacterium known as ‘Mycobacterium tuberculosis’. This TB is called latent because this infecting bacterium stays alive in the body, but remains inactive.

“Treatment for latent TB is very important: It helps keep people from developing full-blown TB, and once you have it, that chain of infection develops. And without treatment, you could die.” ...

Current tuberculosis infection tests struggle to detect the disease in those with HIV. A common co-infection, HIV can hide TB ...

Latent TB refers to infection by the TB bacterium in people who do not have symptoms and cannot infect others. But that latent infection can be converted into an active one by many different ...

Latent TB is a condition that occurs after an individual is infected by the TB bacteria, M. Tuberculosis but does not show symptoms of TB. TB bacteria is dormant in the body and this phase can ...

BROCKTON — Dr. Shrein Saini tested 200 immigrants for tuberculosis over the last year. Eight out of 10 had the latent — that's to say, not contagious — version of the disease.

To end TB for good, the thinking went, the world would need to catch and cure every latent case. In the years since, Ramakrishnan’s stance on latent TB has shifted quite a bit.