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 ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) recently updated its consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis (TB) and undernutrition. Central to this paradigm shift is the pioneering research conducted by Dr ...

World Tuberculosis Day will be celebrated on 24 March, and new recommendations for tuberculosis (TB) diagnostic techniques from the World Health Organization (WHO) may mark a major step towards fast ...

Burnet Institute Senior Research Fellow, Professor Steve Graham, has played a key role in the development of new global guidelines for the management of tuberculosis in children and adolescents.

American Academy of Pediatrics in the United States now recommends IGRA tests like QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus to screen at-risk children of all ages // New recommendation joins trend of U.S.

Tuberculosis is a leading killer of people with HIV, and providing therapy for both illnesses simultaneously saves lives, according to new guidelines on the treatment of drug-susceptible TB. Treatment ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that between 9 and 14 million Americans are tuberculosis (TB)-infected and asymptomatic -- with three-quarters remaining undiagnosed -- ...

New Delhi: The World Health Organisation has released new guidelines to tackle tuberculosis and undernutrition, recommending that food assistance be provided to households with TB patients while the ...

Tuberculosis or TB is one of the world's deadliest infectious killers. It is one of the potential lung infectious diseases that wrecks havoc on the respiratory organs of the body. Primarily caused by ...

The American Thoracic Society, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, European Respiratory Society and the Infectious Diseases Society of America have published an official clinical guideline on ...