In this episode we are joined by Hema Kapoor, MD, SM, D(ABMM), Senior Medical Director of Infectious Diseases/Immunology and Global Diagnostics Network, Medical Affairs at Quest Diagnostics, to ...

PharmaJet's Needle-free intradermal (ID) injection device ("Tropis(R) ID") will be evaluated as delivery system for the tuberculin skin test (TST) in a clinical study conducted by REDE-TB. -- The ...

A woman with a 2-month-old baby tested ppd-positive while she had been pregnant and received no treatment. What is the minimum age one can plant a tuberculin skin test on an infant? Although many ...

Detecting tuberculosis early could play a significant role in eradicating the world's most deadly infectious disease. The World Health Organization says 1.5 million people die from this devastating ...

I am seeing an increasing number of patients who relate a past positive tuberculin skin test (TST) but were never treated with isoniazid (INH) prophylaxis. Before initiating INH treatment in an older ...

New study supports QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus use in immunocompromised and other high-risk populations in various ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “Because the standard tuberculin skin test precludes implementation of bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) ...

The Allegheny County Health Department and Breathe PA are urging residents to utilize tuberculosis prevention and testing ...