Early diagnosis and treatment of active Tuberculosis is utmost priority, but identifying the latent TB, especially among the ...
Tuberculosis continued to rise again in the U.S. last year, reaching its highest levels in more than a dozen years ...
Actually getting treatment is key: The World Health Organization (WHO) says that for two-thirds of TB patients who don't get ...
Latent tuberculosis infection-positivity is common among patients with systemic vasculitis and is associated with BD and smoking history.
In 2023, after a brief hiatus, tuberculosis regained from COVID its status as the world’s deadliest infectious disease—a ...
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 ...
The remaining 80 people diagnosed with TB in Kansas contracted the illness but showed no symptoms, which is called a latent ...
More worrisome: although active, or symptomatic, TB is a reportable disease, latent TB is not. So in 2024 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention still relied on 2011 to 2012 data to estimate ...
Trying to keep a resurgence of tuberculosis cases from exploding into an outbreak, the Vanderburgh County Health Department plans to open a new clinic.