Results of a South African study in this week's issue of THE LANCET show how a diagnosis of tuberculosis in young children can be confirmed by a straightforward sputum test, rather than the ...

Testing for tuberculosis has always been a tedious and complex process. For many years, it meant expensive equipment and invasive procedures. Results could take days, resulting in increased potential ...

The test also showed high sensitivity in detecting TB in respiratory (93%), pediatric stool (83%) and adult spinal fluid samples (93%). With children, HIV patients and those with extrapulmonary TB ...

Testing of sputum is a more accurate way of diagnosing coronavirus disease (Covid-19), according to latest research. The survey shows sputum was more accurate than nasopharyngeal or oropharyngeal ...

A portable tuberculosis (TB) molecular test system that works with sputum or tongue swabs matched the diagnostic accuracy of established TB tests and met World Health Organization (WHO) targets for ...