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 ...

A new study presented today at ADLM 2026 in Anaheim, California, found that a simple blood test could accurately identify ...

Diagnosing tuberculosis — the world’s most lethal infectious disease — with minimal training and without expensive laboratory infrastructure could now be a reality for millions. The recommendation ...

An enhanced tuberculosis culture assay detected asymptomatic infections missed by conventional testing, improving identification of household transmission.

A new blood test can help diagnose tuberculosis much faster. This could help reduce transmission and help patients receive ...

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

For 2007, the WHO estimated 511,000 cases of multidrug-resistant (MDR)-TB, representing approximately 5% of all TB cases worldwide. Extensively drug-resistant (XDR-TB) strains have been detected in at ...

Cases of tuberculosis (TB) — an illness that kills more people than any other infectious disease — rose in the U.S. during 2022, per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). And some ...