News about 'diagnostics'

If you are having trouble viewing, click here . CORE Group Online Presentation about New TB Diagnostic Technology, Xpert®MTB/RI How does it work? Where can it be used? How might it make a difference in the global effort to stop TB? Hosted online by the CORE Group Tuberculosis Working Group on March...

5-Jul-2011 - 8-Jul-2011 | Montreal, Quebec, Canada Context High quality diagnostic studies are critical to evaluate new tools, to develop evidence-based policies on TB diagnostics. There is evidence that TB diagnostic trials are poorly conducted and poorly reported. Lack of methodologic rigour in...

WHO Press Conference Yesterday, Mario Raviglione , Director of Stop TB, and Giorgio Roscigno, CEO of FIND, held a global press conference announcing the World Health Organization’s endorsement of the new rapid diagnostic test Xpert MTB/RIF. If implemented to scale in countries where tuberculosis (...

This story originally appeared on BBC News. Click here to view . By Neil Bowdler Science reporter, BBC News A coloured micrograph of a cross-section of the tuberculosis bacteria Scientists in the UK say they have devised a new ultra-sensitive test which can diagnose the presence of the tuberculosis...

A distinct whole-blood 86-gene transcriptional signature of active TB (Figure 2 in the paper) Last week, a paper was published in Nature by Matthew Berry, Christine Graham et al. which received a fair amount of notice. The authors presented data identifying a probable TB gene signature in people...

This story originally appeared on Reuters here: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67H3OH20100818 A patient who tested positive for extreme drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) awaits treatment at a rural hospital at Tugela Ferry in South Africa's impoverished KwaZulu Natal province, in this...

Genotype MTBDRplus assay kit Last week we highlighted the Xpert® MTB/RIF assay for diagnostic testing . This week, we will briefly describe the GenoType® MTBDR plus assay . The GenoType® MTBDR plus assay uses PCR to amplify biotin-labeled amplicons (single-stranded DNA sequences) of M. tb from...

Cepheid® MTB/RIF Assay cartridge In our latest ‘Sanatorium Files’ post ‘Diagnosis Dilemma’ , we commented on the current advances in TB diagnostics. We’re following up on this theme for the next couple of posts to share the scientific data supporting some of the most promising of these new...

How much does the nose know about TB? In a post a few weeks ago , we highlighted HeroRats , African-pouch rats, and their use for TB diagnoses. As described in that article, these rats are trained to distinguish positive TB samples verses negative TB samples presumably due to the release of...

Rat TB testing apparatus The use of animal models for drug discovery is a key step in the process. Rodents, in particular mice, have been indispensible for understanding the pharmacodynamics (what the drug does to the body) and pharmacokinetics (the time-course of how the body handles the drug) of...