The Elecsys IGRA TB test runs on Roche’s cobas immunoassay systems.

While rich in TB bacteria required for testing, collecting sputum is difficult, making it inefficient for large-scale community testing. Sputum testing is also unfeasible in about 25% of symptomatic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tuberculosis, or TB, is a disease that infects nearly 11 million people worldwide, killing some 1.25 million of them every year, ...

Roche’s Elecsys IGRA TB test receives CE Mark to identify tuberculosis infection: Basel Friday, July 10, 2026, 13:00 Hrs [IST] Roche announced that its Elecsys IGRA TB test has ...

Dr. Mashelkar also pointed to AI-enabled tuberculosis screening, where a patient simply coughs into a smartphone and ...

A new non-invasive tongue swab test for tuberculosis (TB) could mark a major breakthrough in the global fight against one of the world's deadliest infectious diseases. Researchers evaluating the ...

For 2007, the WHO estimated 511,000 cases of multidrug-resistant (MDR)-TB, representing approximately 5% of all TB cases worldwide. Extensively drug-resistant (XDR-TB) strains have been detected in at ...

BANGKOK, Thailand — Doctors from Indonesia and Pakistan have called on nations to expand their testing capabilities for ...

Being a researcher who studies tuberculosis in the lab is one thing, having the TB bug in your lungs is quite another. Spotlight sat down with two of a relatively small number of people who have ...