TB tests use phlegm — not the easiest thing to get or work with. It takes time for results. And there can be false negatives ...

A global team of scientists and clinicians found that a cheap, easy-to-use test for tuberculosis was just as good, if not ...

Compulsory interferon-gamma blood testing will be extended to more cattle herds in England from July, under changes by the ...

Lisa Fox said seven of her llamas were culled on her birthday after testing positive for disease under instructions from the ...

Lisa Fox said seven of her llamas were culled on her birthday after testing positive for disease under instructions from the ...

False positives in these types of tests, which identify immune markers rather than the disease-causing bacteria, can happen for a few reasons.

Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA in more than one in ten respiratory samples has raised concern that tuberculosis ...

A LARGE phase 3 study of a tuberculosis vaccine strategy has found limited overall protection against microbiologically confirmed tuberculosis, but suggests meaningful efficacy against extrapulmonary ...

Researchers at Boston University have discovered an unexpectedly high prevalence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA (TB DNA) in patients hospitalized ...