Items tagged with Diagnostics
Startup company develops quick breath test for TB (post)
Doctors could soon determine if patients have tuberculosis in less than 10 minutes with a simple breath test being developed by a local startup company with technology from the University of New Mexico (UNM).
The role of Xpert MTB/RIF in diagnosing pulmonary tuberculosis in post-mortem tissues (post)
Abstract
Blood test could transform tuberculosis diagnosis, help monitor treatment effectiveness (post)
A simple blood test that can accurately diagnose active tuberculosis could make it easier and cheaper to control a disease that kills 1.5 million people every year.
Factors associated with TB and rifampicin-resistant TB amongst symptomatic patients in India: a retrospective analysis (post)
Abstract
Large-scale household TB screening shows feasibility in PopART trial (post)
Offering TB screening as part of a home-based HIV testing intervention has the potential to identify numerous TB cases that would otherwise have gone undiagnosed, a report from a large community-based study in Zambia shows. The findings, from the PopART study, were reported by Comfort Phiri of Zambart at the 2016 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Boston on Thursday (February 25).
The rats who sniff out tuberculosis (post)
The African giant pouched rat can be trained to sniff out tuberculosis more accurately than most lab tests. So why is the medical profession still sceptical?
Increased case notification through active case finding of tuberculosis among household and neighbourhood contacts in Cambodia (post)
Abstract
Half of pulmonary TB cases were left undiagnosed in prisons of the Tigray region of Ethiopia: implications for TB control (post)
Abstract
Improved detection of tuberculosis and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis among Tibetan refugees, India (post)
Abstract
Low cost, 25 min TB-test could help reduce tuberculosis death rate among patients with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa (post)
March 9, 2016 - A low cost, easy to use, urine test to diagnose tuberculosis (TB) among patients with HIV could help reduce the TB death rate of HIV-positive patients in hospital, according to a new study published in The Lancet today.
Page 14 of 70 · Total posts: 0
←First 13 14 15 Last→