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New tuberculosis testing clinics set up in Manchester; 5 latent infections diagnosed after recent testing
After an adult was diagnosed with tuberculosis after visiting two locations in Manchester in January, officials are ...
A planned new TB clinic in Evansville won't happen quickly. Here's why.
There were nine active cases in Vanderburgh County as of Thursday, fewer than five of which involve children, according to ...
Can India achieve its ambitious tuberculosis elimination goal?
India has set an ambitious target to eliminate tuberculosis (TB) by 2025, five years ahead of the global sustainable ...
Physician's Weekly1d
Optimizing Tuberculosis Screening with a Risk Prediction Model
The following is a summary of “Development and validation of prediction algorithm to identify tuberculosis in two large ...
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Chemist Wins $3.4M Grant to Study TB-Causing Proteins
A Florida State University chemistry researcher will use new funding to explore ways to halt tuberculosis, one of the world's ...
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Why Are Child TB Cases Rising?
The number of notified paediatric tuberculosis (TB) cases has increased by 38 per cent in children aged up to 14 years in the ...
Additional free testing clinics for tuberculosis in Manchester following confirmed case
Two additional testing clinics will be held in Manchester next week after a person who spent time at the Families in Transition Adult Shelter and the 1269 Café in January tested positive for ...
38% rise in notified TB cases in children aged 14 or below in 5 years
Kuldeep Kumar Grover, head of critical care and pulmonology at CK Birla Hospital, Gurugram, said estimates by the WHO and ...
Medscape1d
Contribution of Interferon Gamma Release Assays Testing to the Diagnosis of Latent Tuberculosis Infection in HIV-infected Patients
Background: Diagnosis and treatment of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is the most effective strategy to control tuberculosis (TB) among patients with HIV infection. The tuberculin skin test ...