One of the boys with cavitary tuberculosis sang in the school choir with 21 other boys, 20 of whom were initially tuberculin negative.

Conclusions: Clinical presentation of TB disease differed according to TST result and persons with a negative TST were more likely to have disseminated disease (i.e., miliary or combined pulmonary ...

A new study published in the Sept. 15, 2009, issue of PLoS ONE found that patients with cavitary pulmonary tuberculosis receiving anti-TB medications supplemented with nebulized interferon-gamma ...

An outbreak of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) developed in Kansas in November 2021, and included multiple children who were born in the U.S. and became infected in the state, CDC ...

Goal of Study: This phase III two-sided equivalence trial compares 4 and 6 months of TB treatment (2 months of daily treatment with INH, rifampicin, ethambutol and pyrazinamide followed by either 2 or ...

SEATTLE — An 8-week boosted regimen of bedaquiline and linezolid was noninferior to standard 24-week treatment for tuberculosis in terms of clinical outcomes, according to the results of a phase ...

“If someone comes in and they’re coughing up blood like they got a cavitary lesion, that’s when you’re going to think TB,” he said. “A lot of times, it doesn’t present like that.

Discussion In this analysis of TB cases in the United States, 15.9% of persons with culture-confirmed TB had a negative TST result, and clinical presentation of disease differed by TST result.