It’s either inaccurate — missing up to half of all cases — or requires expensive laboratories that are not widely available in the countries where most people with TB live. This could change with the ...

Researchers have developed a fast, non-invasive tongue swab test for tuberculosis that could transform global TB diagnosis.

A gloved hand holds a test strip in a small plastic vial, with two horizontal red lines on it The tuberculosis test strips developed by Tulane University’s Zhen Huang indicate the presence or absence ...

The MiniDock MTB could expand access to molecular testing in peripheral health centers ...

A portable molecular test, MiniDock MTB, detected pulmonary tuberculosis rapidly and accurately across seven high-burden ...

Avalon GloboCare Corp (NASDAQ:ALBT) announced that Laboratory Services MSO (LSM) is now offering an in-house laboratory-developed test to detect tuberculosis using a patient’s sputum sample. Avalon ...

Your doctor can order this test to find out if you have tuberculosis (TB) or another type of bacterial infection. TB was very common at one time. However, it’s now rare in the United States. According ...

Drugs to treat tuberculosis have been around for more than 75 years, yet it remains the world's top infectious disease killer. A big obstacle has been testing. It's either inaccurate—missing up to ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) is issuing, for the first time, recommendations on new near-point-of-care (NPOC) molecular tests for the diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB); easy-to-collect tongue swab ...