It’s either inaccurate — missing up to half of all cases — or requires expensive laboratories that are not widely available ...

Drugs to treat tuberculosis have been around for more than 75 years, yet it remains the world's top infectious disease killer ...

(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday lifted a moratorium on transfers of inactivated materials from its clinical tuberculosis ...

An international study found the portable MiniDock MTB tuberculosis test, using sputum or tongue swabs, matched the accuracy of leading lab-based diagnostics and met World Health Organization ...

A lab crucial to diagnosing cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reopened, according to the CDC. The Atlanta lab was closed several weeks ago ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lifted a moratorium yesterday on transfers of inactivated materials from its clinical tuberculosis laboratory. A bioterror-lab incident last month ...

About 1.5 million people died of tuberculosis (TB) in 2017, making it the most lethal infectious disease worldwide. A growing rise in drug-resistant TB is a major obstacle to successfully treating the ...

Michigan is taking center stage in the nation’s fight against drug-resistant tuberculosis with the creation of the National Tuberculosis Molecular Surveillance Center at Michigan’s state laboratory in ...

RICHMOND, Va. — The results of nearly 200 tuberculosis tests given in Virginia over a two-month period may have been impacted by a lab issue, the state announced Friday afternoon. The Department of ...

Centers for Disease Control Biotechnology Core Facility (Building 23) is shown in Atlanta, Georgia June 20, 2014. REUTERS/Tami Chappell By Hilary Russ (Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control ...