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Ask the Doctors | It is possible to get false positive TB test

False positives in these types of tests, which identify immune markers rather than the disease-causing bacteria, can happen for a few reasons.

Co-Diagnostics Invited to Present at Stop TB Partnership Summit in Washington, D.C.

Co-Diagnostics, Inc. (Nasdaq-CM: CODX) (the "Company"), a molecular diagnostics company with a unique, patented platform for the development of molecular diagnostic tests, today announced that it has ...
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Tulane University develops CRISPR-based TB test using tongue swab

Researchers at Tulane University in the US have created an improved clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-based tuberculosis (TB) test that can be administered using a ...
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QIAGEN’s New Generation of QuantiFERON TB Test Gains Chinese Approval and Renewed WHO Recommendation

QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus (QFT-Plus), the fourth generation of the modern gold standard for TB detection, receives Chinese NMPA approval as test for active tuberculosis detection World Health ...
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Trudeau Institute working on model to better test tuberculosis treatments

Trudeau Institute researchers are working on a better model to test tuberculosis treatments before they reach patients.

Ultrasensitive test reveals evidence of previously undetected tuberculosis in hospital patients

Researchers at Boston University have discovered an unexpectedly high prevalence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA (TB DNA) in patients hospitalized in Boston, suggesting that tuberculosis disease may ...