It’s either inaccurate — missing up to half of all cases — or requires expensive laboratories that are not widely available ...

The tuberculosis lab, which last year processed more than 500 specimens from around the United States, is the first of the CDC's high-containment labs to be cleared to resume transfers of biological ...

Scientists have long known that the immune system plays a key role in aging. As people age, they have weaker responses to ...

Drugs to treat tuberculosis have been around for more than 75 years, yet it remains the world's top infectious disease killer ...

Researchers have developed a fast, non-invasive tongue swab test for tuberculosis that could transform global TB diagnosis.

Improprieties led CDC director to instruct labs to stop transferring biological materials Ban meant other labs could no longer get the CDC's help A lab crucial to diagnosing cases of drug-resistant ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lifted a moratorium yesterday on transfers of inactivated materials from its clinical tuberculosis laboratory. A bioterror-lab incident last month ...

About 1.5 million people died of tuberculosis (TB) in 2017, making it the most lethal infectious disease worldwide. A growing rise in drug-resistant TB is a major obstacle to successfully treating the ...

Michigan is taking center stage in the nation’s fight against drug-resistant tuberculosis with the creation of the National Tuberculosis Molecular Surveillance Center at Michigan’s state laboratory in ...

(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday lifted a moratorium on transfers of inactivated materials from its clinical tuberculosis ...