The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that up to 13 million people in the United States have latent tuberculosis (TB) infection. These patients do not feel sick, do not show ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Puryear and colleagues performed a cross-sectional study to assess the relationship between levels of alcohol ...

BROCKTON — Dr. Shrein Saini tested 200 immigrants for tuberculosis over the last year. Eight out of 10 had the latent — that's to say, not contagious — version of the disease. Saini wants to get the ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a recent medRxiv* preprint research paper, scientists from India analyzed twenty European countries and showed that the prevalence of exposure to Mycobacterium spp. (which includes BCG vaccine) is ...

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.

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 ...