Items tagged with Diagnostics
Nigeria starts house-to-house search for TB cases in 22 states (post)
Concerned about its rising TB burden, Nigeria has started an active house-to-house search for new cases in the country.
Gene-reading software to cut TB diagnosis from months to minutes (post)
Drug-resistant tuberculosis is on the rise. Software that predicts the specific cocktail of drugs to use in each case will help.
Multidrug-resistant TB treatment failure detection depends on monitoring interval and microbiological method (post)
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Impact of mass-screening on TB incidence in a prospective cohort of Brazilian prisoners (post)
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An evaluation of passive and active approaches to improve TB notifications in Afghanistan (post)
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Migrants screened for active TB pose negligible risk of spreading infection but can still get disease later (post)
Tuberculosis (TB) incidence in the UK has declined over the past 4 years, with fewer numbers of new migrants diagnosed with the disease. A new study, published in The Lancet finds that migrants arriving on visas to the UK from countries at high risk of TB and who were pre-screened for TB, pose a negligible risk of onwards infection, despite being at increased risk of developing TB themselves. The findings suggest that the UK's current pre-entry screening programme, now in place in 101 countries, as well as ongoing monitoring and treatment will be important in continuing the downward trend of TB incidence in the UK.
TB diagnostics: state of the art and future directions (post)
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Africa has an essential medicines list. Now it needs one for diagnostics (post)
Medicines are important to treat disease but diagnostic tests are equally important to find disease. Diagnostic tests help manage both communicable and noncommunicable diseases and survey emerging infectious threats such as the Ebola and Zika viruses.
Symcel, TiKa Diagnostics and St. George’s University of London form partnership to use calScreener™ in anti microbial susceptibility testing (post)
Projects include rapid, culture confirmed tests for different mycobacteria, including TB, and impact studies on developing antimicrobial peptides for superbug treatments and combating biofilm formation
Indian government to buy over 100 TB detection machines (post)
With thousands of tuberculosis patients going undiagnosed, the Union health ministry plans to purchase more than 100 additional Gene Xpert machines next year for speedier detection so that more people can be brought under the treatment net.
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