To find out just how far drug resistance had spread, the World Health Organization and the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease enlisted 25 reference laboratories worldwide; in 1994, these labs began testing samples of tuberculosis strains for resistance to various drugs.
We are grateful to Dr. Abbas Rehmani, Consultant Chest Physician, Rima Clinic, Karachi for providing blood samples from tuberculosis patients and Dr. Bushra Moiz of The Aga Khan University for providing samples from healthy donors.
Studies on clinical samples from tuberculosis patients are required to explore for their potential role as diagnostic biomarkers.
Multi-center evaluation of a user-friendly lateral flow test for detection of IP-10 and CCL4 levels in Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) antigen-stimulated whole blood samples from tuberculosis (TB) suspects.
Cepheid's GeneXpert, for example, is an automated device for polymerase chain reaction (PCR) with special sample preparation cartridges for tuberculosis pathogens, MRSA or group B streptococci.
A detective donned a laboratory coat and pretended to be taking samples of prisoners' saliva for tuberculosis tests.
When the rats are about 8 weeks old, the trainers put sputum samples, positive and negative for tuberculosis, under "sniffing holes" in a specially designed cage.
Less is known, however, about the usefulness of EUS-guided sampling for nonmalignant, mediastinal tuberculosis (TB), despite the increase in the incidence of TB.
This HRM technique is a simple and high-throughput method for screening clinical M. tuberculosis samples for PZA resistance.
In conjunction with the CellScope team at UC Berkeley, this Capstone team developed a low-cost, portable device to generate consistent and high-quality sputum samples for the diagnosis of tuberculosis via cell phone based imaging.
