Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the leading causes of mortality from a single infectious agent worldwide and continues to pose a major public health ...

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Background Timely and appropriate diagnosis and treatment are key to ending tuberculosis (TB). Incorporating users’ ...

New CDC resource: The CDC's False-Positive Investigation Toolkit provides updated guidance for recognizing and investigating potential false-positive TB results. Why it matters: False-positive TB ...

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That has been the question for nearly 150 years, when Dr. Robert Koch first identified the rod-shaped bacterium that causes tuberculosis. This serious respiratory illness is currently the world's ...

Drugs to treat tuberculosis have been around for more than 75 years, yet it remains the world's top infectious disease killer. A big obstacle has been testing. It's either inaccurate—missing up to ...

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Dear Doctors: I got a tuberculosis skin test for my health care job and tested positive. A follow-up blood test was also positive, and I was diagnosed with latent TB. However, I had no known exposure.