You will need to do a test to exclude TB – usually phlegm is sent to the laboratory, but the test could also be a chest X-ray. If you or other family members test negative for TB, then you ...

Korea recorded 40,000 new cases of tuberculosis (TB) infections last year, a government report showed Sunday, hinting the country still needs more attention on the disease usually found in developing ...

Symptoms of the disease include chronic coughs with blood in the sputum (phlegm), fever, night sweats and weight loss. A number of methods are available for detecting TB (ref. 1) but they all ...