Researchers have now been testing a hand-held device, called an electronic nose (e-nose), which can sniff out TB in the breath of small children and return results in about six minutes.

COBB COUNTY, Ga. - Hundreds of students and staff members at Cobb County's Walton High School have received their test results after they were possibly exposed to tuberculosis. Cobb and Douglas ...

Walton High School tested around 300 students and staff for tuberculosis after a potential exposure. Public Health officials and school administrators identified individuals who needed testing to ...

Extensively drug-resistant (XDR-TB) strains have been detected in at ... have the advantage of detailed protocols and prepared test kits, but are more expensive. In-house techniques are cheaper ...

Advocacy groups, including Doctors Without Borders, have long called for the U.S. company Cepheid, which produces TB tests used in poorer countries, to make them available for $5 per test to ...

The national latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) testing and treatment programme (the LTBI programme) has been in place since 2015/16 and is a key part of the Tuberculosis (TB) Action Plan The LTBI ...

29 and will return to receive their test results on Thursday, Oct. 31. "CDPH and the School’s administration have identified those who may have been exposed to TB germs and will be administering ...

Editor’s note: The video in this story is from a previous report. ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - Around 200 students and staff at Walton High School were tested for tuberculosis after a possible ...