Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The use of interferon gamma release assays can reduce overdiagnosis of latent tuberculosis infection among ...

People at high risk for exposure to or infection with M tuberculosis People at high risk of progressing to TB disease after infection with M tuberculosis People who were born in or who frequently ...

The final recommendation statement-- a grade B recommendation -- and an updated evidence report and systematic review were published in JAMA, and build on previous guidelines from 2016, which also ...

Tulare County Health Officials have reported an increase in cases of Tuberculosis, which is an airborne disease that can be ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “In the U.S., TB elimination will require preventing progression to TB disease through the diagnosis and ...

Tuberculosis cases have increased in Tulare County this year, which inspired the county’s Health & Human Services Agency to issue a warning about the disease.

Kansas is dealing with one of the largest outbreaks of tuberculosis recorded in a single year in the United States since the 1950s, state health officials say. The outbreak in the Kansas City area has ...

Tuberculosis (TB) can transmit via the air, and the risk of infection depends on several factors. These can include the duration of exposure, proximity to a person with the infection, and immune ...

Tuberculosis (TB) symptoms vary depending on whether the disease is active or latent. Symptoms typically affect the lungs and may include a persistent, productive cough, fatigue, and fever. TB is a ...

NATIONAL CITYNATIONAL CITY — The county’s Tuberculosis Control Program is working with the Sweetwater Union School District this week to notify students and staff who were potentially exposed to ...

More than 80% of tuberculosis (TB) cases in the United States are a result of untreated latent TB infection that progresses to TB disease. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ...