Such symptomatic cases are known as active TB cases, which can be detected through clinical examination, chest X-ray or sputum examination. A person with active pulmonary TB can release infectious ...

A second active tuberculosis case has been identified in the Chicago suburbs, this time at Joliet West High School.

TB can be found in every major city, in every country. Failing to control it threatens global health security. Now is not the moment to turn our backs on the disease.

The Lake County Health Department confirmed to the school district that the person is isolated from others and undergoing ...

progressing to active TB. By detecting these biomarkers early, healthcare providers can offer preventive treatments, stopping TB before it has a chance to develop. BGI Genomics' PTseq™ Pathogen ...

Untreated active TB, meaning cases that are symptomatic, is highly lethal. About half of all people with untreated active TB die from the disease, whereas treatment reduces the death rate to 12 ...

Narva Hospital reported that during routine testing, traces of a TB pathogen were incidentally detected in samples ... and we will keep them under active pulmonary specialist monitoring for two years.

These family members had early infection, which had not yet developed into the active ... MDR-TB among family and other household members, curtailing the global impact of this dangerous pathogen.