While rich in TB bacteria required for testing, collecting sputum is difficult, making it inefficient for large-scale community testing. Sputum testing is also unfeasible in about 25% of symptomatic ...

Tuberculosis (TB) continues to be one of the world's leading causes of infectious disease-related illness and death. Despite being treatable, gaps in screening and diagnosis have allowed the disease ...

A new strategy for tuberculosis (TB) screening provides a solution to problems with current TB screening, which does not always accurately detect disease. Simultaneously screening for both active and ...

Co-Diagnostics Inc. CODX on Wednesday said CoSara Diagnostics Pvt. Ltd, its joint venture in India, is initiating clinical ...

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 Elecsys IGRA TB test runs on Roche’s cobas immunoassay systems.

An ICMR study in Telangana found that using drones to transport TB sputum samples reduced diagnosis time from 15 days to just ...

New research presented at ACR Convergence, the American College of Rheumatology's annual meeting, shows that tuberculosis (TB) screening and ongoing clinical care is needed for people on methotrexate ...

AI-powered tools are helping India's TB programme detect hidden infections earlier by identifying high-risk areas and ...

More than 10 million people develop tuberculosis (TB) each year, yet about 40% go undiagnosed. The main culprit is reliance on sputum-based testing, which many patients—particularly those who are ...