The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that up to 13 million people in the United States have latent tuberculosis (TB) infection. These patients do not feel sick, do not show ...

Healthcare workers should be tested for tuberculosis (TB) when they are hired and should be retested only after an occupational exposure, according to new guidelines issued by the Centers for Disease ...

tuberculosis The 2016 Treatment of Drug-Susceptible Tuberculosis Guidelines have been released as an update to the previous tuberculosis (TB) guidelines published in 2003. The 2016 Treatment of ...

Prescribing information and clinical guidelines showed gaps in TB screening protocols for many recently approved targeted immunotherapies.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has opened the door to widespread use of interferon gamma release assays (IGRAs) in testing for tuberculosis (TB) infection. Officials lifted restrictions on the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . WHO fully released new treatment guidelines for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, or MDR-TB, and announced a ...

A new study in "Nature Medicine" estimates 2 million people are incorrectly told they have TB each year — and clinicians miss ...

Researchers have published an official clinical guideline on the treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB). The American Thoracic Society, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, European ...

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To eliminate tuberculosis (TB) in the United States, current guidelines should be changed to reclassify all foreign-born residents from high incidence countries as "high-risk" regardless of the amount ...

In 1976, the American Thoracic Society (ATS) published brief guidelines for the investigation, diagnostic evaluation, and medical treatment of TB contacts. Although investigation of contacts and ...

Prithi (name changed to protect privacy) lay restless on the floor of her dwelling in a northern Indian village feeling like she was being devoured from the inside. The gnawing hunger that had plagued ...