Latent infection means the tuberculosis bacteria are still alive inside you, but kept in check by your immune system. Unfortunately, due to illness, stress or just getting older, sometimes latent ...

More than 80% of tuberculosis disease cases in the US result from untreated latent TB infection. Here are five things to know about treating latent TB infection.

Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. While more than 90% of the 2 billion TB cases worldwide are latent—symptom-free and not contagious—the weakening of the immune system ...

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 ...

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 and active forms of TB are treated with antibiotics. For latent infections, treatment can last from three to six months. Active infection requires a longer course of treatment, often with ...

Latent TB treatment: Shorter is better Game-changing study on treatment of latent Tuberculosis shows a novel, short therapy is safer and more effective in children and adults than standard therapy ...

We found that closer to a quarter of today's global population has a latent TB infection—around 1.7 billion people. More than 80 percent of this burden is concentrated in Asia and Africa, ...

Treatment of latent tuberculosis is set to transform after a pair of studies from the Research-Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) revealed that a shorter treatment was ...