A sputum stain for Mycobacteria is a laboratory test performed on a sample of your sputum, or phlegm. It’s also known as an acid-fast bacillus (AFB) stain or a tuberculosis (TB) smear. A doctor ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) is issuing, for the first time, recommendations on new near-point-of-care (NPOC) molecular tests for the diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB); easy-to-collect tongue swab ...

Latest platforms from Indian and Chinese cos eliminate need for sputum and use tongue swabs for testing ...

Today, the fieldhouse in Chicago’s Peterson Park has a game room and offers all kinds of classes for kids and adults, but 100 years ago, it served as the lab and morgue of the Municipal Tuberculosis ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Members of the Tuberculosis (TB) Association of India carry placards as they take part in an ...

Low-income countries struggling to keep tuberculosis under control might get a boost from an unlikely source — giant African rats. The big rodents spotted hundreds of TB-positive sputum samples that a ...

Bavesh Kana receives/received funding from the South African National Research Foundation, South African Medical Research Council, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, The Howard Hughes Medical ...

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