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Fighting tuberculosis with the new MTB Strip Test Kit

Lecturers of the Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, Chulalongkorn University have developed MTB Strip Test Kit for Tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis that's accurate and easy to use, guaranteed by the 2023 ...
Medscape

Contribution of Interferon Gamma Release Assays Testing to the Diagnosis of Latent Tuberculosis Infection in HIV-infected Patients

Background: Diagnosis and treatment of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is the most effective strategy to control tuberculosis (TB) among patients with HIV infection. The tuberculin skin test (TST ...
Labroots

Precision in Practice: Managing Indeterminate TB Testing with Quality Systems

QuantiFERON(R) TB Gold is a test used to diagnose tuberculosis (TB) infection by measuring interferon-gamma release. Test results are reported as: positive, negative, or indeterminate. The American ...
MedPage Today

Risk-Targeted Preventive TB Treatment Works, Particularly With Infection Testing

Treating all household contacts of someone with tuberculosis (TB) helped prevent active TB disease across age groups in the real world, but the effectiveness was highest when treating individuals who ...
USA Today

Even when you don't have TB symptoms, this century-old test can still detect the disease.

Tuberculosis, or TB, is a disease that infects nearly 11 million people worldwide, killing some 1.25 million of them every year, per data from the World Health Organization. A person infected with the ...