Background. Nucleic acid amplification tests are sensitive and specific for identifying Mycobacterium tuberculosis in sputum smear–positive populations, but they are less sensitive in sputum ...

Avalon GloboCare Corp (NASDAQ:ALBT) announced that Laboratory Services MSO (LSM) is now offering an in-house laboratory-developed test to detect tuberculosis using a patient’s sputum sample. Avalon ...

Early and accurate detection is critical for preventing the spread of COVID-19 and providing appropriate care for patients. Nasopharyngeal (NP) swabs, which require inserting a long shaft into the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Microbial diversity was more prevalent in patients with cured vs. treatment-resistant nontuberculosis ...

Clinicians from the Institute of Infectious Diseases at Beijing Ditan Hospital, Capital Medical University found that some patients had positive real-time fluorescence polymerase chain reaction ...

Princeton University and collaborators have developed SHINE-TB, a one-sample, parallelized reaction amplification and detection CRISPR assay that detects Mycobacterium tuberculosis directly from ...

Clinicians found that some patients had positive real-time fluorescence polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test results for SARS-CoV-2 in the sputum or feces after the pharyngeal swabs became negative ...