… Tuberculosis is transmitted from person to person by … active tuberculosis disease after
infection, almost all tuberculosis infections are asymptomatic and remain latent. Latent tuberculosis …

… earlier diagnosis of active pulmonary tuberculosis in clinical practice. A continuous
update on evidenced-based tuberculosis diagnosis can also be found at http://www.tbevidence.org …

… with latent tuberculosis infection at increased risk of progression to active disease is a key
element of tuberculosis … Diagnostic standards and classification of tuberculosis in adults and …

… diagnostic service for tuberculosis. There have been many advances in methodology for
tuberculosis diagnosis and earlier diagnosis is … Nevertheless, many diagnostic tests have given …

… Rapid diagnosis and treatment are important for preventing transmission of Mycobacterium
tuberculosis. However, the diagnosis of tuberculosis continues to pose serious problems, …

… tuberculosis is less prevalent than previously, physicians may fail to include tuberculosis in
the differential diagnosis, … in coming to the correct diagnosis and possibly to tragic outcomes. …

… , regardless of the time to diagnosis, creative approaches need … Intuitively, a longer time to
diagnosis would lead to increased … system delays in pulmonary tuberculosis diagnosis in a low…

… research in tuberculosis, together with the improvements in diagnostic technologies, may
already have identified the essential components needed for new tuberculosis diagnostics. …

… hurdle for global tuberculosis (TB) control. Currently, diagnosis of latent TB infection (LTBI) …
on new tools for TB diagnosis, recent advances in the diagnosis of LTBI are described. The …

… Current diagnostic tests for tuberculosis based on tuberculin have … -tuberculosis mycobacteria
produce a response similar to that induced by infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. …