Detecting TB early goes a long way toward avoiding some of the disease's worst outcomes and preventing its spread to others.

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In those countries, TB is often diagnosed by culturing microbes from a sputum sample, but that test has a high false negative rate, and it can be difficult for some patients, especially children, to ...

The antigen was assessed using rabbit anti-horse serum in a precipitin test and serum antibody was ... neutralizes antigen and “toxic bodies” form, which gives rise to the clinical disease.

Traditionally, screening for latent TB infection (LTBI) is done using the tuberculin skin test (TST). Interferon-gamma release assays (IGRAs) are now increasingly being used for diagnosis of LTBI, but ...