Tuberculosis can be tough to detect. Diagnosis usually requires coughing up a sputum sample from the lungs, which can be unpleasant, impractical, and even hazardous. But in a promising new study, a multinational team of researchers may have found another way to identify the bacterial disease.
“What we wanted to do in this study was to try to improve on the standard diagnostic technologies,” said senior author Dr. J. Lucian “Luke” Davis, MD, who is an associate professor of epidemiology (microbial diseases) at the Yale School of Public Health and of medicine (pulmonary) at the Yale School of Medicine.