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Current treatment for bedaquiline-resistant tuberculosis is linked with poor microbiological responses, unfavorable clinical ...
A TB cough differs from a normal cough in several ways. It typically persists for more than 2-3 weeks, unlike the shorter ...
Quick screening helps identify undiagnosed TB cases within the patient’s family, enabling early treatment and preventing ...
Because tuberculosis (TB) symptoms can be similar to those of other conditions, it may take time to confirm that you have TB. ... Sputum is the mucus that comes up when you cough.
This handheld device is the first that can detect tuberculosis in saliva, in addition to blood and sputum samples, an important breakthrough for testing children and HIV patients, who struggle to ...
We recruited patients between the ages of 18 and 65 years with newly diagnosed, sputum smear–positive, pulmonary, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis on the basis of proportion-method results, 11 ...
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 ...
Tuberculosis has passed Covid as the top infectious disease killer, ... Mr. Boadi, left, gave instructions on how to use a sputum sample cup to Sadia Ribiro, center, and her husband, ...
Tuberculosis is preventable and curable, ... Since 2017 they have tested more than 7,000 inmates for TB every nine months using the standard sputum test plus artificial-intelligence software that ...
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 ...