Overall, the MiniDock MTB test represents a promising advancement in TB diagnostics, particularly for settings where sputum ...

Tuberculosis can be tough to detect. Diagnosis usually requires coughing up a sputum sample from the lungs, which can be unpleasant, impractical, and even hazardous. But in a promising new study, a ...

Led by researchers from Heidelberg Faculty of Medicine at Heidelberg University and the University of California, San ...

An international study found the portable MiniDock MTB tuberculosis test, using sputum or tongue swabs, matched the accuracy of leading lab-based diagnostics and met World Health Organization ...

The World Health Organization has endorsed a rapid, portable tongue swab test for tuberculosis that delivers results in under 35 minutes, with accuracy comparable to established molecular diagnostics.

BETHESDA, Md. & GAITHERSBURG, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Longhorn Vaccines and Diagnostics LLC, a One Health company developing vaccines and diagnostic tools for global public health and zoonosis concerns, ...

Diseases and tuberculosis in particular can pose considerable challenges for wildlife. In order to avoid epidemics within populations or to treat individual animals belonging to highly endangered ...

For 2007, the WHO estimated 511,000 cases of multidrug-resistant (MDR)-TB, representing approximately 5% of all TB cases worldwide. Extensively drug-resistant (XDR-TB) strains have been detected in at ...

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, tuberculosis will not be eradicated in this century. The ASU Biodesign Institute and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine are working ...

Scientists performed repeated lung lavage as a new approach for tuberculosis diagnosis in rhinoceros. Subsequent genetic tests reliably identified mycobacteria in the animals' respiratory fluids -- ...