Showing 264 results

Filters Content type: News, Editors' picks Topic: TB diagnosis

There are several ways to test for tuberculosis (TB), including sputum smear microscopy (examining a sample of phlegm under a microscope), the culture test (growing bacteria from a sample), the tuberculin skin test (known as Mantoux or PPD), a blood test called interferon gamma release assay (IGRA), X-rays and scans.

TB diagnosis

Decline in U.S. Tuberculosis Rates Slows: CDC

Editor's pick
HealthDay
20 March 2015
TB diagnosis

South Africa: Pledge to turn tide in the war on TB

Editor's pick
Times Live
17 February 2015
TB diagnosis

PHE and NHS England launch joint £11.5m strategy to wipe out TB in the UK

Editor's pick
Public Health England press release
19 January 2015
TB diagnosis

Xpert TB Takes Twice Longer Than Standard TB Test In HIV+ Of Durban

Editor's pick
International AIDS Society
9 December 2014
TB diagnosis

UNITAID: Tuberculosis diagnostics technology and market landscape – 3rd edition

Editor's pick
EATG
1 October 2014
Drug-resistant TB

Reduced treatment delays for people with drug-resistant TB and HIV co-infection through decentralised care and rapid Xpert MTB/RIF test

News
23 July 2014
Improving HIV care

From Rhetoric to Reality: An Analysis of Efforts to Scale Up The Response to TB-HIV

Editor's pick
ACTION
22 July 2014
TB transmission & prevention

South Africa: Antiretrovirals Credited for TB Decline

Editor's pick
Health-e
13 June 2014
TB diagnosis

Mass TB Tests 'Would Save Billions'

Editor's pick
Business Daily
31 March 2014
Drug-resistant TB

Poor Diagnosis Driving Global Multidrug-Resistant TB, WHO Warns

Editor's pick
Reuters
24 March 2014
Drug-resistant TB

South Africa Battles Drug-Resistant TB

Editor's pick
Inter Press Service
12 March 2014
TB diagnosis

Xpert TB test doesn’t reduce morbidity but it does have important advantages

Editor's pick
HIV i-Base
10 March 2014
TB diagnosis

CROI 2014: GeneXpert real world study yields mixed results, highlights SA health system challenges

Editor's pick
Science Speaks
5 March 2014
TB diagnosis

TB-HIV news from the 44th Union World Conference on Lung Health.

News
28 February 2014
TB diagnosis

GeneXpert use still hobbled by high pricing, Treatment Action Group, TB Community Advisory Board say

Editor's pick
Science Speaks
28 January 2014
TB diagnosis

GLOBAL: Xpert MTB/RIF Test Quickly Detects TB and Resistance to Rifampicin

Editor's pick
CDC National Prevention Information Network
23 January 2014
TB transmission & prevention

Cotrimoxazole prophylaxis neither reduces TB risk nor complicates TB diagnosis in people with HIV

News
21 January 2014
TB diagnosis

TB/HIV programmatic challenges highlighted at ICASA

News
7 January 2014
Drug-resistant TB

Urgency Needed in the Global Response to Drug-resistant Tuberculosis

Editor's pick
PLoS Blogs
4 November 2013
TB diagnosis

Pros and cons of high-tech TB testing

Editor's pick
IRIN
30 October 2013
TB transmission & prevention

Gains in tuberculosis control at risk due to 3 million missed patients and drug resistance

Editor's pick
World Health Organization (press release)
23 October 2013
TB diagnosis

London, tuberculosis capital of Western Europe, uses van with X-ray machine to detect TB

Editor's pick
Washington Post
23 October 2013
TB diagnosis

Public Health England plans national primary care TB screening programme

Editor's pick
Pulse
18 October 2013
TB diagnosis

A Rapid, Paper-Based Diagnostic Test for Tuberculosis

Editor's pick
Science Daily
8 October 2013