Items tagged with Diagnostics
Blood test for eight gene signatures could predict onset of TB (post)
Scientists at UCL have shown a blood test could predict the onset of tuberculosis three to six months before people become unwell, a finding which could help better target antibiotics and save countless lives.
Xpert Ultra improves TB meningitis detection, does not rule out disease (post)
In an HIV-positive population, the Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra assay detected tuberculous meningitis with higher sensitivity than the older Xpert assay and a mycobacterial growth indicator tube culture, according to findings published in The Lancet.
TB pleural effusion diagnosis: accuracy of genotype line probe assay (post)
Despite having a good specificity for tuberculous pleural effusion diagnosis, genotype MTBDRplus line probe assay (MTBDRplus) could not be included in most diagnostic algorithms as a result of its low sensitivity, according to study results published in Infectious Diseases.
Mass TB screening with point-of-care test is cost-effective, Brazil prison study shows (post)
Suppose you have a large group of people, confined together, considered likely to pose a threat to people outside their walls, but without the ready means to determine if they pose a threat to each other? If the space wasn’t built to contain the spread of an airborne infectious diseases, a public health disaster could be among the unintended consequences of that arrangement.
Tulane researchers developing rapid test for tuberculosis with DOD grant (post)
Led by Tony Hu, the Weatherhead Presidential Chair in Biotechnology Innovation at Tulane University School of Medicine, researchers at Tulane, Baylor College of Medicine and NanoPin Technologies, Inc. are now developing a rapid, reliable and highly specific test to allow rapid diagnosis of all forms of tuberculosis (TB), the leading worldwide cause of death from infectious disease.
Pioneering research by University of Pretoria and University of Leicester revolutionises early detection of TB (post)
Researchers at the University of Pretoria (UP) and the University of Leicester are revolutionising the way tuberculosis (TB) is detected through the invention and application of a 3D-printed insert added to simple face masks. This new approach has the potential to detect millions of currently missed infections across the world.
QIAGEN’s QuantiFERON®-TB Gold Plus to be adopted for latent TB testing in Nigeria (post)
QIAGEN announced that Nigeria has published guidelines recommending QuantiFERON®-TB Gold Plus (QFT®-Plus) in screening for latent TB infection as part of Nigeria’s strategy to prevent the spread of TB.
TB-LAMP test now available for $6 through Global Drug Facility (post)
02 March 2020, Geneva, Switzerland - Stop TB Partnership’s Global Drug Facility (GDF), Eiken Chemical Co., Ltd (Eiken) and Human Gesellschaft für Biochemica und Diagnostica mbH (HUMAN) announced today an agreement to reduce the price of the TB-LAMP test by over 30%.
New tool for an old disease: Use of PET and CT scans may help develop shorter TB treatment (post)
Experts believe that tuberculosis, or TB, has been a scourge for humans for some 15,000 years, with the first medical documentation of the disease coming out of India around 1000 B.C.E. Today, the World Health Organization reports that TB is still the leading cause of death worldwide from a single infectious agent, responsible for some 1.5 million fatalities annually. Primary treatment for TB for the past 50 years has remained unchanged and still requires patients to take multiple drugs daily for at least six months. Successful treatment with these anti-TB drugs — taken orally or injected into the bloodstream — depends on the medications “finding their way” into pockets of TB bacteria buried deep within the lungs.
MSF technical briefs (post)
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) updated two of its technical briefs, A rapid TB test for people living with HIV and Making the switch.
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