There was no past or family history of tuberculosis ... After 10 months of antituberculosis therapy, the patient was symptom free and his skin lesions had all been replaced by hyperpigmented ...

The skin test is more reliable." According to officials, TB eradication efforts in the district have been making steady progress. In 2024, the district aimed to treat 7,700 TB patients ...

In 2023, tuberculosis (TB) killed about 1.25 million people worldwide, more than any other infectious disease on Earth — even though it is curable. Months- or even years-long regimens of potent ...

The Lake County Health Department confirmed to the school district that the person is isolated from others and undergoing treatment.

The patient, from Ireland ... believing at first it was caused by inflamed connective tissue in the skin, they tested the pus. Testing revealed the woman had TB-causing bacteria in her body, possibly ...

A new strategy for tuberculosis (TB) screening, proposed by a team of researchers led by Queen Mary University of London, provides a solution to problems with current TB screening, which does not ...

The vaccine can cause a false positive on a TB skin test. The current vaccine is ... Health care workers are more likely to ...

"TB remains a critical public health concern in low-income countries and diagnosis using a cheap, simple test like we've developed is needed not only to treat patients with TB but prevent further ...

Without treatment, it has a death rate of close to 50%. Like that of millions of other TB patients across the world, Jamni’s treatment was supported by the United States Agency for International ...