tuberculosis strain in the presence of a single ... Furthermore, until now there have been no commercially available test kits for second-line drugs, making these tests more error-prone due ...

An Elmhurst University student was confirmed to have tuberculosis last week, and two more students have suspected cases, ...

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.

Hundreds of students and staff members at Cobb County's Walton High School are waiting for their test results days after they ...

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 ...

After hundreds of students and staff at Walton High School in Marietta were tested on Tuesday due to possible tuberculosis (TB ... a mandatory Tuberculin Skin Test (TST) to them.

All persons with TB signs and symptoms are initially advised to use rapid molecular diagnostic tests. A tuberculin skin test (TST) and an interferon-gamma release assay (IGRA) can also identify TB ...

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 ...

"CDPH and the School’s administration have identified those who may have been exposed to TB germs and will be administering a mandatory Tuberculin Skin Test (TST) to those individuals," the CDPH ...