Tulane University researchers have developed an enhanced CRISPR-based tuberculosis test that works with a simple tongue swab, ...

The test can be administered on a mouth swab instead of sputum and doesn’t require lab facilities ...

Using QuantiFERON-TB Gold as the sole screening test before starting biologic therapy reduces TB diagnoses compared with ...

Electrical & Biomedical Engineering (EBME) Professor Xiaoshan Zhu and his colleagues have won a U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Phase 2 award to develop this test after proving their concept ...

A student has tested positive for tuberculosis.  After receiving a notification from Abilene Taylor County Public Health on ...

A person with HIV may be more at risk of developing tuberculosis (TB). This is due to the weakening of the immune system that occurs in someone who has HIV. Tuberculosis (TB) is a bacterial infection ...

Tuberculosis has passed Covid as the top infectious disease killer, despite new medicines and better diagnostic tools. Gifty Gyan, who was diagnosed with tuberculosis in June, was weighed at the ...

A CRISPR mouth-swab test could transform TB screening with rapid, low-cost detection in low-resource and asymptomatic cases.