Tuberculosis (TB) remains a leading cause of illness and death among children worldwide, with nearly 1.3 million cases estimated in 2023 and more than half going undiagnosed. Current diagnostic tools, ...

The single intradermal comparative cervical tuberculin (SICCT) test and post-mortem examination are the main diagnostic tools for bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in cattle in the British Isles. Latent class ...

Flowchart of all participants. TB: tuberculosis; T-SPOT.TB: interferon-gamma release assay; TST: tuberculin skin test; C-TST: creation tuberculin skin test; PTB: pulmonary tuberculosis; EPTB: ...

A 27-year-old male civil servant presented to a hospital in India with noduloulcerative lesions on both lower limbs. At presentation, the patient also had a low-grade continuous fever, malaise and ...

A newly approved diagnostic test could give UK clinicians a more accurate way to identify latent and active tuberculosis (TB). The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has ...

26 August 2007 AMMAN - The Health Ministry will soon resume carrying out tuberculosis (TB) skin tests on schoolchildren to examine the prevalence of the disease in the country's public schools. "The ...

A substantial proportion of subjects exposed to a contagious tuberculosis case display lack of tuberculin skin test (TST) reactivity. We previously mapped a major locus (TST1) controlling lack of TST ...

Background and aims: Tuberculosis is one of the major health problems in the world. Interferon gamma release assay (IGRA) is a novel tool for Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection diagnosis. The aim of ...

Initial blood work found hints of an infection, and the doctors initially suspected a bacterial skin infection (cellulitis) ...