Led by YSPH and partners at CIDEIM at Icesi University, the research team conducted the study in Cali, Colombia.

WHO recommends near point-of-care tests, tongue swabs, and sputum pooling for TB diagnosis: Geneva Wednesday, March 11, 2026, 14:00 Hrs [IST] The World Health Organization (WHO) i ...

A streamlined approach to tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis requiring a single sputum sample and providing rapid, accurate results to patients proved feasible in rural Uganda, according to research ...

New tests recommended by the WHO can address TB cases with no or few symptoms more quickly and improve access to life-saving treatment.

New Delhi, Sep 19 (PTI) A pilot project for utilising services of the postal department for transport of sputum specimen for diagnosis of tuberculosis was launched at Karawal Nagar here on Wednesday.

Tuberculosis can be tough to detect. Diagnosis usually requires coughing up a sputum sample from the lungs, which can be unpleasant, impractical, and even hazardous. But in a promising new study, a ...

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Using a swab to test for a disease should be fresh in the memory of anyone who had a Covid-19 test. A test for TB that relies on a simple tongue swab instead of a person having to cough up sputum is ...

Low-income countries struggling to keep tuberculosis under control might get a boost from an unlikely source — giant African rats. The big rodents spotted hundreds of TB-positive sputum samples that a ...