The Xpert Ultra assay had superior sensitivity compared with Xpert for detecting tuberculosis in patients with paucibacillary disease and patients with HIV, study data showed.

Health care workers showed an extremely low risk for occupational tuberculosis infection in a low-incidence setting, according to recently published findings.

A novel risk score successfully predicted and stratified the 10-year tuberculosis risk for adult contacts of patients who already had the disease, according to findings from a prospective derivation and external validation cohort study.

Migrants who were at risk for tuberculosis demonstrated a high rate of disease after migration, suggesting that preventive treatment for latent infection, improved pre-migration screening and post-migration follow-up would improve tuberculosis control in countries with low incidence, according to researchers in Australia.

Corticosteroids could reduce 90-day mortality rates in patients with tuberculosis who are in acute respiratory failure, according to researchers in South Korea.