Tuberculosis can be tough to detect. Diagnosis usually requires coughing up a sputum sample from the lungs, which can be unpleasant, impractical, and even hazardous. But in a promising new study, a ...

For years, conventional DST on solid egg- or agar-based media was a standard technology and is still utilized in many countries worldwide. The methodologies are the proportion method, the absolute ...

The latent TB testing market presents opportunities through government support, tech advances in multiplex and molecular diagnostics, POC testing, telemedicine, and personalized medicine. These ...

Introduction. We reevaluated the usefulness of a whole-blood interferon-γ enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (QuantiFERON TB-2G [QFT-TB]; Cellestis) in obtaining a differential diagnosis between active ...

Princeton University and collaborators have developed SHINE-TB, a one-sample, parallelized reaction amplification and detection CRISPR assay that detects Mycobacterium tuberculosis directly from ...

BETHESDA, Md. & GAITHERSBURG, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Longhorn Vaccines and Diagnostics LLC, a One Health company developing vaccines and diagnostic tools for global public health and zoonosis concerns, ...

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, tuberculosis will not be eradicated in this century. The ASU Biodesign Institute and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine are working ...

Scientists performed repeated lung lavage as a new approach for tuberculosis diagnosis in rhinoceros. Subsequent genetic tests reliably identified mycobacteria in the animals' respiratory fluids -- ...

Tuberculosis can be tough to detect. Diagnosis usually requires coughing up a sputum sample from the lungs, which can be unpleasant, impractical, and even hazardous. But in a promising new study, a ...

Across the spectrum of human afflictions—from cancer to heart disease to rare genetic conditions—medical investigators are continually attempting to break new ground by developing better methods of ...