For over a century, tuberculosis was diagnosed using a sputum sample, a microscope and a trained eye. But smear microscopy was a blunt tool, with barely 50% sensitivity, missing one in two cases.

The Elecsys IGRA TB test runs on Roche’s cobas immunoassay systems.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tuberculosis, or TB, is a disease that infects nearly 11 million people worldwide, killing some 1.25 million of them every year, ...

Chemists found a way to identify a complex sugar molecule in the cell walls of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the world's deadliest pathogen. This labeling could lead to simpler, faster TB tests.

Tuberculosis (TB) can transmit via the air, and the risk of infection depends on several factors. These can include the duration of exposure, proximity to a person with the infection, and immune ...

Drugs to treat tuberculosis have been around for more than 75 years, yet it remains the world’s top infectious disease killer. A big obstacle has been testing. It’s either inaccurate — missing up to ...

Dr. Mashelkar also pointed to AI-enabled tuberculosis screening, where a patient simply coughs into a smartphone and ...