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There are several ways to test for tuberculosis (TB), including sputum smear microscopy (examining a sample of phlegm under a microscope), the culture test (growing bacteria from a sample), the tuberculin skin test (known as Mantoux or PPD), a blood test called interferon gamma release assay (IGRA), X-rays and scans.

Drug-resistant TB

Know your epidemiology: one lesson of many for GeneXpert roll-out

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Science Speaks
16 May 2011
TB diagnosis

UK screening for latent TB is failing

News
26 April 2011
TB diagnosis

Improving TB diagnosis in India: What will it take?

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Science Speaks
4 April 2011
TB diagnosis

KENYA: Stepping up paediatric TB diagnosis

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IRIN Plus News
24 March 2011
TB diagnosis

South Africa: Poor Response to TB and HIV

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AllAfrica
24 March 2011
Drug-resistant TB

New TB Test to Detect More People Who Need MDR-TB Treatment

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MSF
24 March 2011
TB diagnosis

The BCG World Atlas a world first in the fight against tuberculosis

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Eurekalert Medicine & Health
22 March 2011
TB transmission & prevention

Spurring community engagement to ensure the proper implementation of the Three I’s for TB/HIV

News
17 March 2011
Tuberculosis & HIV

A research agenda for TB

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Science Speaks
16 March 2011
TB diagnosis

ZAMBIA: How to build a TB lab in a shipping container

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IRIN Plus News
2 February 2011
TB diagnosis

ZAMBIA: Better health comes in containers

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IRIN Plus News
27 January 2011
TB diagnosis

WHO recommends against inaccurate tuberculosis tests

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The Lancet
10 January 2011
TB diagnosis

Strip to detect HIV, TB to come to India soon

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The Statesman
6 January 2011
TB transmission & prevention

New joint guidelines on IPT and intensified case-finding from WHO

News
21 December 2010
Improving HIV care

TB, HIV target out of reach, says study

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Sowetan
14 December 2010
TB diagnosis

WHO says Cepheid rapid test will transform TB care

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Reuters
8 December 2010
Self-testing & home testing

Is self-testing for HIV on the way in Africa?

News
15 November 2010
TB diagnosis

TB still killing 4000 people with HIV each day, WHO reports

News
12 November 2010
TB diagnosis

TB in India: a deadly misdiagnosis

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New Yorker
9 November 2010
Drug-resistant TB

Managing MDR-TB in the community: from presentation to cure or end-of-life care

News
18 October 2010
TB diagnosis

One-hour TB test "must be affordable" for poor countries

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IRIN Plus News
20 September 2010
TB diagnosis

UK scientists devise 'one-hour test' for TB

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BBC
17 September 2010
TB diagnosis

More intensive screening for TB needed for HIV-positive patients in South Africa

News
9 September 2010
TB diagnosis

New genomic marker for tuberculosis may help identify patients who will develop the disease

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Eurekalert Medicine & Health
30 August 2010