Cepheid continues to charge $15 per test for the diagnosis of extremely drug-resistant TB, the most lethal form of the disease. Funding for TB services in low- and middle-income countries fell to ...

Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Symptoms aren't usually present in the primary or latent stage of TB, but there are still two ways to test whether TB germs are present in the body.

Scientists have developed a blood test to identify tuberculosis in its earliest stages before any of the symptoms of the disease become apparent. Its use may help doctors to screen people who have ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The hardest-to-treat form of drug-resistant tuberculosis ... Among people with XDR-TB with HIV test results, 53 percent were HIV-positive, the researchers said.