Working with the WHO Global TB Programme through Enterprise’s Academic Consultancy Service, she led a team of 24 international experts to synthesise the latest evidence on the accuracy and impact of ...
Welsh researchers have been awarded funding of almost £1.2 million to develop a new detector for tuberculosis in humans and animals that can report a result in one hour. The technology will be simple ...
All persons with TB signs and symptoms are initially advised to use rapid molecular diagnostic tests. A tuberculin skin test (TST) and an interferon-gamma release assay (IGRA) can also identify TB ...
Commercially available culture-based techniques have the advantage of detailed protocols and prepared test kits ... assays for the rapid screening of patients at risk of MDR-TB.