A higher dose of rifampicin -- a bactericidal antibiotic used primarily to treat tuberculosis (TB) -- may be safe, and its ...

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

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

Sputum testing: For suspected active TB disease, a healthcare professional can take a sample of sputum (mucus coughed up from the lungs) and test it to identify the presence of TB bacteria. How to ...

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

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 ...

Chest radiography and microscopical examination of sputum smears for acid-fast bacilli are relatively insensitive screens for tuberculosis in people with HIV infection, 15,16 and those who have no ...

Another challenge is that sputum is not particularly useful when it comes to testing children for TB. That’s because children are often just as likely to develop the disease in the brain or in ...

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 ...

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 ...