This is one of those silver lining sort of things: The COVID pandemic appears to have at least temporarily reduced the incidence of tuberculosis (TB), a highly infectious disease spread by ...

Using a swab to test for a disease should be fresh in the memory of anyone who had a Covid-19 test. A test for TB that relies on a simple tongue swab instead of a person having to cough up sputum is ...

Tuberculosis, or TB, is a disease that infects nearly 11 million people worldwide, killing some 1.25 million of them every year, per data from the World Health Organization. A person infected ...

Then SARS-CoV-2 came along and grabbed the notorious title of #1 killer: In 2020, COVID-19 was responsible for 3.5 million deaths worldwide vs 1.5 million for TB. The 2024 Global Tuberculosis ...

With current technology, TB is easier to detect in sputum samples than those taken from the tongue. That is because sputum comes directly from the lungs, which is typically where the TB bacterium ...

Most tuberculosis (TB) tests are conducted on sputum samples. The difficulty with this is that many people, particularly children and people living with HIV, struggle to cough up the thick mucus ...

While likely years away from widespread use, a test for TB that relies on a simple tongue swab instead of a person having to cough up sputum is showing promise. Spotlight takes stock of how the ...