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 ...

The latent TB testing market presents opportunities through government support, tech advances in multiplex and molecular diagnostics, POC testing, telemedicine, and personalized medicine. These ...

For 2007, the WHO estimated 511,000 cases of multidrug-resistant (MDR)-TB, representing approximately 5% of all TB cases worldwide. Extensively drug-resistant (XDR-TB) strains have been detected in at ...

Princeton University and collaborators have developed SHINE-TB, a one-sample, parallelized reaction amplification and detection CRISPR assay that detects Mycobacterium tuberculosis directly from ...

More than 10 million people develop tuberculosis (TB) each year, yet about 40% go undiagnosed. The main culprit is reliance on sputum-based testing, which many patients—particularly those who are ...

Lecturers of the Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, Chulalongkorn University have developed MTB Strip Test Kit for Tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis that's accurate and easy to use, guaranteed by the 2023 ...

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 ...

Tuberculosis (TB) takes more than 1 million lives annually, with 95 percent of fatalities coming in developing nations. Eradicating TB in these countries is especially difficult because of the lack of ...

The global diagnostics market is experiencing robust growth, driven by an increasing burden of chronic diseases (74% of all ...

Across the spectrum of human afflictions—from cancer to heart disease to rare genetic conditions—medical investigators are continually attempting to break new ground by developing better methods of ...