Items tagged with Diagnostics
Thailand develops new TB-Lamp rapid test kit for TB (post)
The department's medical scientist team has developed the rapid TB-Lamp test kit for five years based on the WHO Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification (Lamp) method.
TB: This pee test could save your life (post)
What if diagnosing South Africa’s deadliest disease was as simple as taking a drug store pregnancy test? That day might be closer than you think.
Roche expands the Global Access Program beyond HIV to also include diagnostic tests for TB, hepatitis and HPV (post)
-- Access to innovative diagnostic solutions will contribute to the World Health Organization’s infectious disease elimination goals
-- Improving access to reliable diagnostics for disease management in countries with the highest burden
-- Early detection of infectious diseases with diagnostics helps clinicians save lives
TGen and ABL plan global rollout of advanced test for TB, one of the most deadly pathogens (post)
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz., and LUXEMBOURG CITY, Luxembourg — July 31 — Advanced Biological Laboratories (ABL) is expected to soon begin manufacturing of a compact, portable and affordable test for tuberculosis (TB), designed by the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an affiliate of City of Hope.
Xpert Ultra test offers more rapid diagnosis in pediatric TB (post)
Testing multiple different respiratory specimens with Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra (Ultra) provides a novel and useful strategy for rapid diagnosis of pediatric tuberculosis (TB), according to study results published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.1
Filter-based kits developed for TB diagnosis, drug-resistance testing (post)
To address the TB diagnostic challenges, a multi-institutional team has developed three cost-effective kits that improve the sensitivity of smear microscopy, enable transport of sputum samples at ambient temperature without using bio-safe containers, and extract DNA for diagnosing drug-resistant TB. The three kits are — TB Detect, TB Concentration & Transport, and TB DNA Extraction.
Webinar: Advancements in TB diagnostics (post)
The Global Coalition of TB Activists (GCTA) and FIND will host a webinar on advancements in TB diagnostics on 26 September 2019.
Update of WHO TB diagnostic guidelines: Call for public comment (post)
End-users (i.e. policy makers; health professionals, including doctors, nurses and educators working in governmental and non-governmental organizations; TB patients) interested in providing comments on the scope of this guideline update are invited to submit their feedback until 26 September 2019.
Lancet Series: Tuberculosis 2019 (post)
Executive summary
NEJM study shows community-wide active case finding has the potential to End TB using existing tools (post)
The paper, Community-wide Screening for Tuberculosis in a High-Prevalence Setting, published yesterday (October 3) in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed that annual community-wide TB screening in a disease endemic area was more effective than standard passive case detection in reducing TB prevalence. The study shows that achieving the rate of decline necessary to reach ambitious End TB targets using existing tools is possible – if efforts are rapidly and adequately scaled up.
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