After an extensive review by the CDC’s internal Laboratory Safety Improvement Working Group, CDC Director Tom Frieden, MD, MPH, has lifted the moratorium on a specific type of material transfer for ...

A lab crucial to diagnosing cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reopened, according to the CDC. The Atlanta lab was closed several weeks ago ...

The best vaccine against tuberculosis is also the only vaccine against tuberculosis, and it’s not a great one at that. Called BCG, it protects many children, but it fails miserably in shielding adults ...

The State Health Laboratory has put in place a tuberculosis lab test with a 48-hour turnaround time that promises to cut dramatically the three-week time that suspected TB patients are forced to spend ...

Many countries in resource-limited settings have high HIV, malaria, tuberculosis, hepatitis, and/or sexually transmitted infection (STI) burdens. In 2010, WHO first recommended the use of the Xpert ...