The means to effectively intervene transmission and thereby ultimately to get the disease under control are based on early diagnosis and treatment combined with vaccination of the populations at risk. The currently available anti-tuberculosis vaccine was developed in the beginning of this century by Cal...
Tuberculosis (TB) has remained a disease of public health importance since ages, affecting more than 10 million people globally and taking lives of 2 million people worldwide every year. Despite the dramatic improvements made in providing high-quality TB diagnostic services, since the discovery of ...
For many decades, the only rapid diagnostic test for tubercu- losis has been the acid-fast smear, which is insensitive and nonspecific. Therefore, the recent development of two diag- nostic tests that identify Mycobacterium tuberculosis ... A Catanzaro - 《Tubercle & Lung Disease》 被引量: ...
The TDR tuberculosis specimen bank: a resource for diagnostic test developers. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2010;14:1461–7.Nathanson CM; Cuevas LE; ... CM Nathanson,LE Cuevas,J Cunningham,... - 《International Journal of Tuberculosis & Lung Disease the Official Journal of the International Union...
The effective removal and control of tuberculosis (TB) disease can be achieved with early and accurate diagnosis.It accounts for a majority of deaths and loss of health status thus damaging the economy.The present diagnostics for TB are not very effective as their sensitivity and specificity are ...
Serodiagnostic test for tuberculosis. A soluble antigen fluorescent antibody test was used for the serodiagnosis of tuberculosis in both human and nonhuman primates. This test method, when used... LF Affronti,EH Fife,L Grow - 《American Review of Respiratory Disease》 被引量: 28发表: 1973年 ...
Meta-analysis of Indian studies evaluating adenosine deaminase for diagnosing tuberculous pleural effusion OBJECTIVE: To determine the diagnostic accuracy of Behera,D.,Aggarwal,... - 《International Journal of Tuberculosis & Lung Disease the Official Journal of the International Union Against Tuberculosis ...
Tuberculosis is a major source of global mortality caused by infection, partly because of a tremendous ongoing burden of undiagnosed disease. Improved diagnostic technology may play an increasingly crucial part in global efforts to end tuberculosis, but
The validity of criteria was tested using information from bacterial isolation, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test for tuberculosis, response to treatment and autopsy. RESULTS: PCR was positive in over 75% of patients in the highly probable and probable groups. 91% of patients with highly ...
Skeletal remains dating to the Neolithic era in Egypt bear tell-tale traces of tuberculosis (TB)—a disease that is estimated to have killed a billion people in the last two centuries alone. The bacteria responsible for TB can lurk in a person's lung tissue for decades before producing activ...