TB Blood Tests Faulty - WHOGENEVA, Switzerland (Reuters) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) called on Wednesday for an immediate halt to the use of blood tests to detect active tuberculosis, saying they were faulty and leave millions of people at risk.Manila Bulletin...
Also launched a new TB sequencing portal with more than 56,000 sequences image credit- shutterstockThe World Health Organisation (WHO) has just published recommendations on the use of a new class of diagnostic technologies i.e. targeted next-generation sequencing (N...
WHO-endorsed tests did not detect a substantial number of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, or MDR-TB, cases in South Africa that harbor a certain mutation, “resulting in ineffective first-line treatment, continued amplification of drug-resistance, and concurrent silent spread in the community,” re...
"Based on the evidence, (these) tests lead to misdiagnosis and mistreatment of patients. They are a waste of time and resources," Mario Raviglione, director of the WHO Stop TB Department, told reporters. "We are calling on governments to ban the use of these tests." An estimated two mil...
‘Intensive care’ does not cease on discharge from the nursery. Neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) need to appreciate the ongoing morbidities for infants that survive and are discharged home. This is especially useful to help identify improvements in both the quality of treatment and outcomes ...
While presenting an opportunity for rapid detection of MDR-TB, no tests for rapid identification of second-line drug resistance are yet available. Conventional DST for first-line anti-TB drugs has been thoroughly studied and consensus has been reached on appropriate methodologies, critical drug ...
“I have a clear sense of what my ethnicity means to me,” and is measured using a four-point Likert scale ranging from (1) Does not describe me at all to (4) Describes me very well. Internal consistency of the EIS-B resolution scale was very good (αT1 = 0.84;αT2 = ...
Biochemical assays utilized to detect elevated oxidase and esterase activity within insects does not always equate with the phenotypic expression of resistance in WHO tests or bottle bioassays [20]. This may mean that biochemical tests are unable to correlate fully with phenotypic resistance or serve ...
‘Intensive care’ does not cease on discharge from the nursery. Neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) need to appreciate the ongoing morbidities for infants that survive and are discharged home. This is especially useful to help identify improvements in both the quality of treatment and outcomes ...
19. - How do you prove something exists when you can't see it? Does God exist? Does the wind blow? 你看不见的东西如何证明其存在呢?那上帝存在吗?风真的在吹吗? - We know because the leaves move. 我们知道风存在是因为树叶在动