Interpreters, peer navigators, educational materials, and text message reminders can improve the yield and cost-effectiveness of screening and treatment for tuberculosis infection among migrants.

Prescribing information and clinical guidelines showed gaps in TB screening protocols for many recently approved targeted ...

A highly contagious and potentially deadly disease is seeing sharp upticks—and that's in addition to the measles outbreak we're dealing with already. Tuberculosis (TB) is a bacterial infection that ...

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Scientists from the University of Cape Town's (UCT) Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine (IDM) have contributed to an international study that shed new light on why humans and ...

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Before SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, spread across the world in 2020, tuberculosis was responsible for more deaths globally than any other infectious disease. But thanks to targeted ...

TB remains the leading cause of death among people living with HIV. Uganda is a high TB-burden country, and HIV accelerates ...

San Francisco public health officials have identified three active tuberculosis cases among the school community at ...

Ocular TB is a rare eye disease due to infection from Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the same bacterium that causes tuberculosis, commonly known as TB. TB symptoms usually start in the lungs, but they ...

Florida health officials announced this week that an individual at Fort Lauderdale’s Dillard High School had contracted tuberculosis. The case was reportedly in a student. Broward County school ...

SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The county's Tuberculosis Program is working with the Metropolitan Transit System to notify riders of the trolley's Blue Line that they were potentially exposed to and are at risk ...