Chest x-ray is the initial starting point. ... (leukemia, lymphoma, metastases, granulomas in miliary TB) Blood count: Liver biopsy (granulomatous hepatitis) Peripheral blood smear (malaria, leukemia) ...

BCG, the only vaccine currently used against tuberculosis, confers only limited protection. Here the authors show that mucosal immunization of macaques with an attenuated strain of Mycobacterium ...

A single chest x-ray exposes the patient to about 0.1 mSv. This is about the same amount of radiation people are exposed to naturally over the course of about 10 days. A mammogram exposes a woman to 0 ...