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This handheld device is the first that can detect tuberculosis in saliva, in addition to blood and sputum samples, an important breakthrough for testing children and HIV patients, who struggle to ...

Those who became infected with COVID had higher levels of gene expression for two key proteins, ACE2 and TMPRSS2.

The battery-powered device is the first to detect Mycobacterium tuberculosis in saliva in addition to blood and sputum.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, tuberculosis (TB) mortality surged for the first time in two decades. While these increases ...

Tulane University researchers have developed a first-of-its-kind handheld diagnostic device that can deliver rapid, accurate ...

These are uniquely challenging times in the fight against the enduring and accelerating scourge of tuberculosis (TB)—an ...

An outbreak of tuberculosis within Kansas City in the United States has been ongoing since Jan. 2024 and has highlighted new ...

Researchers led by the University of Waterloo have discovered how to turn common bacteria into high-efficiency factories ...

The Xpert MTB/Ultra molecular diagnostic test may become a viable option for detecting tuberculosis (TB) in the stool of adults with HIV, according to the results of a recent study.

Did you know , Parents, that pneumonia in children is considered the number 2 killer of toddlers in Indonesia? It is not ...

As a landmark WHO report warns of a lack of treatments and diagnosis, we investigate a threat that now kills twice as many ...