A simple swab of the tongue could make it easier to do tuberculosis testing and diagnose millions of cases earlier.

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

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.

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

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 ...