In this episode we are joined by Hema Kapoor, MD, SM, D(ABMM), Senior Medical Director of Infectious Diseases/Immunology and Global Diagnostics Network, Medical Affairs at Quest Diagnostics, to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Using the mycobacteria growth indicator tube as an adjunct to tuberculin skin testing may improve early ...

Beginning Dec. 12, the Fairfax County Health Department will administer skin tests to teachers, students and others considered close contacts of a Centreville High student recently diagnosed with TB.

Q I got a tuberculosis skin test for my health care job and tested positive. A follow-up blood test was also positive, and I ...

Hospitals across the country are running out of skin tests for latent tuberculosis, according to Spectrum News 1. The cause of the shortage is unclear and may last for months, Jonathan Grein, MD, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tuberculosis, or TB, is a disease that infects nearly 11 million people worldwide, killing some 1.25 million of them every year, ...

A recently introduced blood test can reveal which patients may develop active tuberculosis much more precisely than the 100-year old TB skin test, according to a new study published today in the ...

FORSYTH COUNTY, N.C. — The Forsyth County Health Department is changing requirements for who gets tested for tuberculin (TB) due to a nationwide shortage of Aplisol and Tubersol. Both Aplisol and ...

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Researchers in the UC Davis Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine have created a new tuberculosis blood test that ...