Tuberculosis, or TB, is a disease that infects nearly 11 million people worldwide, killing some 1.25 million of them every year, per data from the World Health Organization. A person infected with the ...

It is recommended to do a tuberculin (Mantoux) skin test for candidates waiting for kidney transplantation. When is the test considered positive in dialysis patients? Should preventive treatment for ...

A college student with a positive result on purified protein derivative (PPD) testing (induration 12 mm) and a negative chest x-ray was treated with nine months of isoniazid. During this period, he ...

The first year of a baby’s life is full of rapid changes and exciting milestones. Babies grow really fast during this time; most double their birth weight by around 6 months, and triple it by the time ...