For 2007, the WHO estimated 511,000 cases of multidrug-resistant (MDR)-TB, representing approximately 5% of all TB cases worldwide. Extensively drug-resistant (XDR-TB) strains have been detected in at ...

Researchers have developed a new highly sensitive blood test for tuberculosis (TB) that screens for DNA fragments of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria that causes the deadly disease. Researchers ...

Princeton University and collaborators have developed SHINE-TB, a one-sample, parallelized reaction amplification and detection CRISPR assay that detects Mycobacterium tuberculosis directly from ...

More than 10 million people develop tuberculosis (TB) each year, yet about 40% go undiagnosed. The main culprit is reliance on sputum-based testing, which many patients—particularly those who are ...

Researchers at Tulane University in the US have created an improved clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-based tuberculosis (TB) test that can be administered using a ...

Tuberculosis can be tough to detect. Diagnosis usually requires coughing up a sputum sample from the lungs, which can be unpleasant, impractical, and even hazardous. But in a promising new study, a ...

Tuberculosis (TB) takes more than 1 million lives annually, with 95 percent of fatalities coming in developing nations. Eradicating TB in these countries is especially difficult because of the lack of ...

Tulane University researchers have developed an enhanced CRISPR-based tuberculosis test that works with a simple tongue swab, a potential breakthrough that could allow easier, community-based ...

Researchers have developed a highly sensitive blood test that can find traces of the bacteria that causes tuberculosis (TB) in infants a year before they develop the deadly disease, according to a new ...

Your doctor may use an acid-fast bacteria (AFB) stain test to see if you have a lung disease like tuberculosis (TB). In addition to showing tuberculosis, an AFB stain can also show if you have another ...