Human Health

80 percent of people with tuberculosis (TB), the world’s most deadly infection, do not have a persistent cough and yet are still infective, according to a study led by Amsterdam UMC, published in the Lancet. 

A novel approach to studying the progression of tuberculosis (TB) from infection to disease has identified and treated people at increased risk of developing the disease that current methods of testing would not.

A clinical trial of Actiphage, a promising new diagnostic for tuberculosis infection, has shown for the first time that live bacteria can be detected in the blood of people with incipient TB infection.

A quarter of a million children die of tuberculosis (TB) each year worldwide. Early diagnosis would help save lives.

Worldwide a quarter of a million children die of tuberculosis (TB) each year, early diagnosis would help to save their lives but most are unable to produce the sample of mucus that is needed for the current test.