medwireNews: The use of a novel, diagnostic test called Xpert (Cepheid Inc, California, USA) is both sensitive and specific in detecting tuberculosis (TB) and rifampicin resistance, report US ...

Indian medical imaging AI company Qure.ai has secured new approval in Europe for the expanded use of its chest X-ray analysis AI tool to diagnose paediatric tuberculosis in toddlers.

An automated nucleic acid amplification test widely used for early detection of tuberculosis in countries where the disease is more prevalent also worked well in the United States, suggesting the ...

A study led by Frank Cobelens of the Amsterdam Institute of Global Health and Development, Amsterdam, The Netherlands and colleagues reports on the cost-effectiveness of implementing the Xpert MTB/RIF ...

The Xpert Ultra assay had superior sensitivity compared with Xpert for detecting tuberculosis in patients with paucibacillary disease and patients with HIV, study data showed. “WHO recommended the ...

PGIMER has adopted Gene-Xpert for rapid tuberculosis testing, which provides results in just two hours Gene-Xpert technology is highly sensitive in detecting extra-pulmonary TB, making it an effective ...

A second systematic review of a diagnostic test for tuberculosis (TB) endorsed by the World Health Organization (WHO), has confirmed the accuracy of the test. The updated review assesses the accuracy ...

Two research studies in this week's PLoS Medicine suggest that a new automated DNA test for tuberculosis (Xpert MTB/RIF), which can detect TB within 2 hours and has been endorsed by the World Health ...

Background: The identification of non-tuberculosis (TB) mycobacterial (NTM) infection remains a significant challenge. This study aims to investigate the diagnostic value of multicolour nested ...

One of the first signs that the fight against tuberculosis had entered a frightening new phase came in the village of Tugela Ferry in central South Africa. Starting in 2005, 53 patients checked ...