While rich in TB bacteria required for testing, collecting sputum is difficult, making it inefficient for large-scale community testing. Sputum testing is also unfeasible in about 25% of symptomatic ...

A case of tuberculosis has been reported at Lloyd High School in Northern Kentucky. Officials are testing several dozen who ...

No known additional active tuberculosis cases have developed — so far — from a person with active TB who was at 26 Clark County School District campuses and a training center in recent weeks, ...

A new non-invasive tongue swab test for tuberculosis (TB) could mark a major breakthrough in the global fight against one of the world's deadliest infectious diseases. Researchers evaluating the ...

Cases of tuberculosis (TB) — an illness that kills more people than any other infectious disease — rose in the U.S. during 2022, per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). And some ...

A person associated with Stuart W. Cramer High School recently tested positive for active tuberculosis disease, prompting an ...