The drugs, sutezolid and delpazolid, have demonstrated strong antimicrobial activity and a notably better safety profile ...

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The Tulane team has developed a handful of other assays for TB detection, including a mass spec test for paucibacillary TB ...

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

Replacing the TB skin test with mandatory blood testing across all herds is not the solution to worsening TB trends, the Department of Agriculture has said.TDs and senators sitting on the Joint ...

This review looked at adults and adolescents with HIV who have signs and symptoms of tuberculosis (TB) disease. Diagnosis can be done using respiratory samples (fluids or mucus collected by coughing ...

A meta-analysis of the evidence for the effect of BCG vaccination on tuberculin skin testing in subjects without active tuberculosis was therefore performed. Methods: Medline was searched for English ...

However, it will also result in 16 more children without tuberculosis being misdiagnosed as having tuberculosis. Compared to using only LC-aNAAT on stool alone, parallel testing of LC-aNAAT on ...