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Tuberculosis cases rise, but public health agencies say they lack the resources to keep up

People think tuberculosis is gone. … It’s here and growing.

March 14, 2023 Cancer / Tuberculosis/TB

Seattle group reports TB vaccine advance

Temperature-stable TB vaccine is safe and provokes immune response By Brian Doctrow, Ph.D., National Institutes of Health. An experimental tuberculosis

September 7, 2022 Biotechnology / Laboratory Medicine / Tuberculosis/TB

Using nanotechnology and AI to diagnose TB in children

Combining nanotechnology with artificial intelligence can diagnose tuberculosis in children in whom the deadly disease might otherwise go undetected.

January 2, 2020 Tuberculosis/TB / Vaccines

Giving TB vaccine intravenously boosts its effectiveness

The vaccine against TB is usually injected into the skin. A new animal study finds injecting it into the bloodstream dramatically boosts its effectiveness.

November 13, 2019 Tuberculosis/TB

Auburn Medical Center employee diagnosed with TB

An employee at MultiCare Auburn Medical Center’s Family Birth Center has been diagnosed with TB. But the risk that contacts were infected is low.