ABSTRACT: Background: Circulating antibodies against specific M. tuberculosis (M. tb) antigens offer promising diagnostic biomarkers and an appealing alternative due to their ease of application, cost ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is the world’s leading infectious disease killer, surpassing COVID-19 in 2023, according to the World ...

the CDC recommends a tuberculin skin test or blood test first. If you test negative, you should get another test eight to 10 weeks after returning to the United States. Take any recommended ...

the CDC recommends a tuberculin skin test or blood test first. If you test negative, you should get another test eight to 10 weeks after returning to the United States. Make sure to take any ...

In a press briefing on Nov. 7, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced its recommendation to test farmworkers who were exposed to animals infected with bird flu ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is updating its recommendations for testing, treatment and protection for workers who may be exposed to animals infected with bird flu.

The CDC had recommended testing be limited to workers who had symptoms after exposure to infected animals. Officials now recommend workers exposed to an infected animal be tested even if they ...

A previous study of this cohort found high rates of tuberculin skin test conversion (presumptive evidence of TB infection) and TB disease in the first 5 years of life. For this study, the researchers ...

Assuring proper identification and treatment of persons who have TB disease Preventing the spread of disease to others Finding, screening and treating persons exposed to those with disease Targeting ...

“That means that we in public health need to cast a wider net in terms of who is offered a test so that we can identify, treat and isolate those individuals,” he said. CDC officials previously ...

(Cynthia Goldsmith, Jackie Katz/CDC via AP, File) Federal health officials on Thursday called for more testing of employees on farms with bird flu after a new study showed that some dairy workers had ...