Early detection and treatment plans have helped limit further disease transmission in the US. However, we've seen numbers ...

Despite decades of efforts, tuberculosis remains a global health crisis, claiming over 1.3 million lives annually.

One adult who received a clinical diagnosis of extrapulmonary TB disease declined treatment despite extensive measures on the part of public health and clinicians. Local public health staff ...

The number of tuberculosis cases linked to an outbreak in the Kansas City area continues to swell, according to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. The outbreak, which began a year ...

Kansas is dealing with one of the largest outbreaks of tuberculosis recorded in a single year in the United States since the 1950s, state health officials say. The outbreak in the Kansas City area ...

A new clinical decision support system, "TBorNotTB," helps streamline airborne infection isolation decisions, reducing workload while maintaining TB detection accuracy. Study: TB or not TB?

Conclusions: TB is still a major public health problem in the world, and there is a rising tendency of extrapulmonary TB incidences in the developed countries. Because of the high mortality and ...

No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript. Diagnosis of extrapulmonary TB (EPTB) is a major challenge. This large study found that when testing a range of ...

Antibiotic treatment for drug-resistant tuberculosis found to be safe and effective in clinical trial Levofloxacin substantially reduces risk of drug-resistant tuberculosis, Sydney researchers ...

Extrapulmonary TB disease, which affects organs in addition to or instead of the lungs, may cause other symptoms including back pain, blood in urine, headache or confusion. Persons with latent TB ...

Roughly a quarter of the global population is estimated to have TB, but only about 5% to 10% of those develop symptoms. How big is the tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas? As of Jan. 24, 67 people are ...