ST. PAUL -- State officials are waiting for test results to confirm that a second deer from northwestern Minnesota has bovine tuberculosis. The deer, shot near Skime where beef herds have tested ...

A TB blood test can find out whether you have the Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria in your body. Whether you need to get tested and how often depends on your specific circumstances. A blood test ...

What started off as three McCormick students’ biomedical engineering capstone project has become a potentially life-saving intervention for communities struggling with tuberculosis. First-year ...

Tuberculosis, or TB, is a disease that infects nearly 11 million people worldwide, killing some 1.25 million of them every year, per data from the World Health Organization. A person infected with the ...

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We searched for evidence from studies known as 'clinical trials' that compared rapid TB tests with traditional methods of testing for TB, like smear microscopy and culture. We summarised the findings ...

Amanda Bush got a call this month from the Southern Nevada Health District saying her 10-year-old son was exposed to tuberculosis at Deskin Elementary School. A representative told her that testing ...