"Our results indicate that ELISpot is an important advancement to rapidly distinguish acid-fast bacilli sputum smear-negative active TB from LTBI in routine clinical practice." ...

The primary diagnostic method remains sputum examination—a process that analyzes lung mucus using an acid-fast bacilli smear and culture test. While effective, this approach has remained unchanged for ...

Reduced bacillary load in elderly patients with active extrapulmonary and pulmonary tuberculosis in Peru: analysis of confirmatory culture after acid-fast bacilli test ...

Factors influencing treatment initiation among patients who were asymptomatic included presence of cavitary lesions, positive acid-fast bacilli smear, and younger age. Investigators compared the ...

Pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) is a highly infectious disease. TB is curable if it is diagnosed opportunely. Worldwide, the most used diagnostic method is the analysis of smear microscopy, which consists ...

OSAKA, Japan-- (BUSINESS WIRE)-- Shionogi & Co., Ltd. (Head Office: Osaka, Japan; Chief Executive Officer: Isao Teshirogi, Ph.D.; hereafter "Shionogi") today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug ...

GeneXpert MTB/RIF showed a higher positive rate compared to that in the acid-fast bacilli smear and Mycobacterium culture. The results also showed that the Mycobacterium tuberculosis -specific antigen ...

Additionally, among 33,937 cases with an acid-fast-bacilli-smear-positive result, 70.9% had an NAA test performed, whereas 38% of the 30,244 with an acid-fast-bacilli-smear-negative result had an ...