SCTIMST researchers develop cost-effective, real-time LAMP assay for early TB diagnosis with high sensitivity and specificity ...

This test, the so-called Molecular Bacterial Load ... the most common form of the disease, rely on sputum smear microscopy, ...

Children tend to develop pauci-bacillary TB and are rarely sputum smear positive. M. tuberculosis culture is more sensitive than smear microscopy, but it remains an insensitive test (culture ...

The Xpert MTB/Ultra molecular diagnostic test for stool samples, until now recommended only for children, could be established as an additional test for diagnosing tuberculosis in adults living with ...