Items tagged with Diagnostics
India: Nudge to tweak TB treatment rules (post)
New Delhi, July 6: India could prevent on average 18,000 people from developing multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis every year over the next decade if the health ministry accelerates proposed changes in TB diagnosis and treatment policies, public health experts have said.
Cytokine kinetics in the first week of tuberculosis therapy as a tool to confirm a clinical diagnosis and guide therapy (post)
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On-chip processor: First step in point-of-care asthma & tuberculosis diagnostics (post)
A device to mix liquids using ultrasonics is the first and most difficult component in a miniaturized system for low-cost analysis of sputum from patients with pulmonary diseases such as tuberculosis and asthma. The device, developed by engineers at Penn State in collaboration with researchers at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the National Institutes of Health, and the Washington University School of Medicine, will benefit patients in the U.S., where 12 percent of the population, or around 19 million people, have asthma, and in undeveloped regions where TB is still a widespread and often deadly contagion.
The potential impact of up-front drug sensitivity testing on India’s epidemic of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (post)
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Automated chest-radiography as a triage for Xpert testing in resource-constrained settings: a prospective study of diagnostic accuracy and costs (post)
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International study validates Veredus 'lab-on-chip' multidrug-resistant TB test (post)
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – A new assay system for multi-drug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis purports to address cost and versatility issues affecting currently available TB tests.
TST, peripheral blood monocyte count helps identify risks for tuberculosis (post)
The combination of tuberculin skin testing and peripheral blood monocyte count helped physicians identify people with Mycobacterium tuberculosis at risk for progression to tuberculosis, according to recently published data.
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