Current tuberculosis infection tests struggle to detect the disease in those with HIV. A common co-infection, HIV can hide TB ...

A new credit card-sized tuberculosis (TB) test, requiring no electricity, could revolutionize detection in HIV hotspots by ...

Given the severity of the issue, ASEAN's regional action plan, established in 2018, to eliminate tuberculosis by 2035, is ...

Babies and children are also at higher risk. "If a person has latent TB infection, TB disease activation varies from 5% to 15% over a lifetime, but can be higher if a person has multiple risks ...

A portable diagnostic device that uses a beetle-inspired chemical reaction has shown improved detection of tuberculosis in ...

The distinction between latent TB infection and active TB disease remains crucial. In latent TB, the bacteria remain dormant, causing no symptoms and remaining non-contagious.

"While latent TB infection does not spread to other people or cause symptoms right away, it can cause illness later in life," officials wrote in a news release.

What is TB? Tuberculosis, also known as TB, is a bacterial infection that primarily affects a person's lungs. Its symptoms vary widely depending on how the slow-growing mycobacterium that causes ...

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 ...

There were 9,633 cases of TB disease reported in the U.S. in 2023, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, up from 8,332 in 2022. In New York State, there were 714 cases in ...