The United States experienced the lowest number of tuberculosis cases in 2016 since the CDC began tallying TB infections in 1953, according to the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. While ...

After an extensive review by the CDC’s internal Laboratory Safety Improvement Working Group, CDC Director Tom Frieden, MD, MPH, has lifted the moratorium on a specific type of material transfer for ...

Tuberculosis rates in the U.S. rose by 16 percent in 2023, marking the third year that cases went up following nearly 30 years of decline. In the most recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report from ...

Provisional guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) describe FDA-approved and off-label uses of bedaquiline fumarate (Sirturo, Janssen Therapeutics) in populations with ...

A lab crucial to diagnosing cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reopened, according to the CDC. The Atlanta lab was closed several weeks ago ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. Overall, 9,615 TB cases were reported in 2023, a 16% ...

tuberculosis The CDC announced an expected 3 to 10 month shortage of Aplisol (tuberculin purified protein derivative [PPD], diluted), used as an aid in the diagnosis of tuberculosis. The Centers for ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is resuming shipments of some dangerous biological samples to and from one of its high-security labs less than two weeks after imposing a moratorium in ...

ATLANTA — The honeymooner quarantined with a dangerous strain of tuberculosis was identified today as a 31-year-old Atlanta personal injury lawyer whose new father-in-law is a CDC microbiologist ...

Federal health officials stand by their quarantine of an Atlanta lawyer they believed had a dangerous form of tuberculosis, even though new tests show he has a less severe form of the disease. “The ...

A lab crucial to diagnosing cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reopened, according to the CDC. The Atlanta lab was closed several weeks ago ...