The state Department of Health will institute new tuberculosis screening procedures on Monday, meaning that traditional TB skin tests may no longer be necessary for TB clearances needed for jobs, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Factors associated with testing positive for LBTI and those associated with being tested in general varied.

In this episode we are joined by Hema Kapoor, MD, SM, D(ABMM), Senior Medical Director of Infectious Diseases/Immunology and Global Diagnostics Network, Medical Affairs at Quest Diagnostics, to ...

Tuberculosis, or TB, is a disease that infects nearly 11 million people worldwide, killing some 1.25 million of them every year, per data from the World Health Organization. A person infected with the ...

A TB blood test can find out whether you have the Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria in your body. Whether you need to get tested and how often depends on your specific circumstances. A blood test ...

The following scenario emphasizes the necessity of creating a wheal while administering the Mantoux test. A 46-year-old Asian man who recently immigrated to the United States was seen for routine ...

The people on the front lines of tuberculosis control have their hands full, but their biggest challenge for the moment may be containing strains of the disease that are resistant to drugs. Worldwide ...

tuberculosis The CDC announced an expected 3 to 10 month shortage of Aplisol (tuberculin purified protein derivative [PPD], diluted), used as an aid in the diagnosis of tuberculosis. The Centers for ...

Parents of children in Central Middle School in Eden Prairie received an email and phone call on Wednesday, Feb. 9, reporting that someone at the school had been diagnosed with TB (tuberculosis).

DENVER (CBS4)- The TB contact investigation continues at Metro State University in Denver after students, faculty and staff may have been exposed to someone sick with tuberculosis. Denver Public ...