CDC recommends new tuberculosis blood test

CDC recommends routine, voluntary HIV screening in health care settings.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today published new recommendations for health care providers that are designed to make voluntary HIV screening a routine part of medical care for all patients aged 13 to 64. The recommendations aim to simplify the HIV testing process in health care settings and increase early HIV diagnosis among the estimated more than 250,000 HIV-posit...

New alternative test for Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex.

I read the report on the alternative test for the presumptive identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex with a great interest.(1). Simeão et al. recommended “the combined screening test to rapidly identify M. tuberculosis in resource-poor settings and in less well-equipped laboratories while awaiting definite identification by molecular or biochemical methods.”(1) I agree that the ne...

Tuberculosis in children: New diagnostic blood tests.

The interferon-gamma-release assays were developed to overcome the pitfalls and logistic difficulties of the tuberculin skin test (TST) for the diagnosis of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI). These blood tests measure the in vitro production of interferon-gamma by sensitized lymphocytes in response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis-specific antigens. Two interferon-gamma-release assays are regis...

A novel blood test for tuberculosis prevention and treatment.

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