In the 1980s, after decades of steadily declining rates of tuberculosis, ambitious plans were made to eliminate the disease in the United States. Despite these plans, the control of tuberculosis was ...

Global efforts to tackle tuberculosis (TB) are starting to bear fruit, with the number of cases decreasing for the first time ...

The World Health Organization recommends drug-susceptibility testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex for all patients with tuberculosis to guide treatment decisions and improve outcomes. Whether ...

Introduction. We reevaluated the usefulness of a whole-blood interferon-γ enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (QuantiFERON TB-2G [QFT-TB]; Cellestis) in obtaining a differential diagnosis between active ...

Patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) may require biological therapy, particularly tumour necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitors, which are effective but increase the risk of tuberculosis (TB).

Tuberculosis cases are on the rise in the U.S., according to a report published Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While the country has one of the lowest rates of TB in the ...

Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the world's deadliest infectious killers, claiming over 1.2 million lives and affecting an ...

Infection by Mycobacterium tuberculosis kills 1.5 million people worldwide every year. Antibiotics to treat TB exist, but in recent years, multi-drug resistant (MDR), extensively drug-resistant (XDR) ...

Tuberculosis continued to rise again in the U.S. last year, reaching its highest levels in more than a dozen years. More than 10,300 cases were reported last year, an 8% increase from 2023 and the ...