Mumbai: Less than three months after the World Health Organisation (WHO) recommended tongue swabs to detect tuberculosis (TB) ...

A portable molecular test, MiniDock MTB, detected pulmonary tuberculosis rapidly and accurately across seven high-burden countries, using sputum or tongue swab samples. The study suggests the low-cost ...

Your doctor may use an acid-fast bacteria (AFB) stain test to see if you have a lung disease like tuberculosis (TB). In addition to showing tuberculosis, an AFB stain can also show if you have another ...

Tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis has evolved from reliance on clinical presentation and microscopy towards molecular and imaging technologies that offer greater sensitivity, specificity and speed.

SAN JOSE , CA, UNITED STATES, February 5, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — OptraSCAN ®, a digital pathology company integrated with AI-enabled diagnostics, today ...

Fluorescence microscopy has transformed the detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by exploiting fluorescent dyes or probes that bind selectively to mycobacterial cell walls. Auramine-O staining ...

New Delhi: For over a century, tuberculosis was diagnosed using a sputum sample, a microscope and a trained eye. But smear microscopy was a blunt tool, with barely 50% sensitivity, missing one in two ...

What was tested: Researchers evaluated the MiniDock MTB molecular diagnostic in seven high-burden countries using sputum and tongue swab samples. How it performed: The test achieved up to 86% ...