Electrical & Biomedical Engineering (EBME) Professor Xiaoshan Zhu and his colleagues have won a U.S. National Science ...
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WHO gives first approval of TB test
GENEVA — The World Health Organization announced Thursday it had given a first-ever green light to a test for tuberculosis — a disease which killed 1.25 million people last year. Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra, ...
The test can be administered on a mouth swab instead of sputum and doesn’t require lab facilities ...
Tuberculosis, or TB, is a disease that infects nearly 11 million people worldwide, killing some 1.25 million of them every year, per data from the World Health Organization. A person infected with the ...
Using QuantiFERON-TB Gold as the sole screening test before starting biologic therapy reduces TB diagnoses compared with ...
KIRKLAND, Wash. — A couple of juniors from Juanita High School in Kirkland are raising awareness and support for an infectious disease that’s been underfunded and overshadowed by COVID-19. Ria Mohan ...
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Tulane University develops CRISPR-based TB test using tongue swab
R esearchers at Tulane University in the US have created an improved clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-based tuberculosis (TB) test that can be administered using a ...
A CRISPR mouth-swab test could transform TB screening with rapid, low-cost detection in low-resource and asymptomatic cases.
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