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New tuberculosis test for active infections

Accepted submission by Anonymous Coward at 2016-02-20 20:05:55
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An Anonymous Coward writes:

[traditional tests] can't separate patients with active TB from those who are no longer sick or have merely been vaccinated

The new test monitors the expression of three genes from a blood sample and can specifically detect an active infection. The test is 86% sensitive with a false negative rate of 1%.

Globally, tuberculosis infects 9.6 million new patients each year and kills 1.5 million

http://m.medicalxpress.com/news/2016-02-blood-tuberculosis-diagnosis-treatment-countries.html [medicalxpress.com]

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