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Category: Gene Xpert

Posted on July 28, 2018July 29, 2018

AIIMS-led team develops highly sensitive, portable test for TB meningitis

A team led by Jaya Sivaswami Tyagi from AIIMS in collaboration with THSTI has developed a diagnostic test for TB meningitis with nearly 100% sensitivity and about 91% specificity. The rapid, point-of-care…

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Posted on March 13, 2018March 14, 2018

ICMR wins the 2017 Kochon Prize for TB research

The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has won the Stop TB Kochon Prize for excellence in TB research and development. The $65,000 Prize is awarded annually by Stop TB Partnership to individuals and/or…

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Posted on July 17, 2017July 17, 2017

A looming threat of tuberculosis in children

The RNTCP guidelines on contact screening are heeded mostly in the breach. About 5,500 of over 76,000 children tested in nine Indian cities have been diagnosed with tuberculosis, 9% of…

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Posted on July 9, 2017July 9, 2017

India wants to eliminate TB by 2025 but falters on several critical fronts

In 2015, India accounted for nearly 2.8 million (27%) of the 10.4 million new tuberculosis (TB) cases in the world, and 0.48 million (29%) of the 1.8 million TB deaths…

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Posted on July 1, 2017July 4, 2017

Cheaper TB diagnostic test developed in India enters final validation stage

A cheaper, locally developed molecular diagnostic test, Truenat MTB, for drug-sensitive and rifampicin-resistant TB is entering the final leg of performance validation and operational feasibility testing by the Indian Council of…

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Posted on March 19, 2017March 19, 2017

Without a magic wand, India cannot eliminate TB by 2025

At the end of 50 years of tuberculosis control activities, the disease remains a major health challenge in India. As per new estimates, the number of new cases every year…

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Posted on October 31, 2016October 31, 2016

Time India got serious about fighting TB

Pushed to a corner owing to lack of political will on the part of countries with a high burden of tuberculosis, the World Health Organisation has called for the first…

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Posted on October 26, 2016October 26, 2016

About 0.5 million TB patients approaching RNTCP centres are not treated

In 2013, India had about 2.7 million people with TB, which is 23 per cent of the global burden of TB. India also accounted for 27 per cent (760,000) of…

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