MARCY L’ETOILE, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regulatory News: Today marks World Tuberculosis (TB) Day and bioMérieux (Paris:BIM), a world leader in the field of in vitro diagnostics, announces the CE ...

A new screening process for tuberculosis infections in prisons could mean that more than 50 percent of those screened won't undergo unnecessary treatment due to false positives. A test for TB using ...

American Academy of Pediatrics in the United States now recommends IGRA tests like QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus to screen at-risk children of all ages // New recommendation joins trend of U.S.

The newly introduced Interferon-Y release assays (IGRA) is a new group of blood tests that offer many operational advantages over the conventional tuberculin skin tests (TST) -- particularly in the ...

The Interferon Gamma Release Assay (IGRA) blood test is the most modern, economical, and efficient means of tuberculosis screening. So why do 3-out-of-4 healthcare providers continue to default to the ...

The goal of TB elimination, less than 1 case per million people per year, can only be achieved through a concerted effort to detect and treat persons infected with TB, which includes those persons ...

ATS 2016, SAN FRANCISCO - A new skin test for tuberculosis infection has proven safe, easy to administer and accurate in two Phase III clinical trials, according to research presented at the ATS 2016 ...

A new screening process for tuberculosis (TB) infections in Canadian prisons could mean that more than 50 per cent of those screened won't undergo unnecessary treatment due to false positives.