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Global Update: tuberculosis: World Health Organization support rapid diagnosis of the device.

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Do not have trained World Health Organization laboratory technicians, and it takes less than 2 hours, new tuberculosis test rig support.

Dr. Mario Raviglione, regulators, pause TB campaign called the major milestones in selected patients diagnosis — despite the shortcomings, such as the expense, vulnerability and electric. Tuberculosis kill 170 million last year, predicts W... H... O.....

Currently, normal tuberculosis patients is read the sputum microscopy to lab technicians to ensure that training is required. If the doctor drug resistant tuberculosis suspected how antibiotics takes 3 months to grow enough to kill it.

Tuberculosis sefaid, American company, new diagnostic Foundation innovative, development, new machine can verify, and then it tells the most common TB drugs in resistant rifampicin.

Also you W... H... O...., recommended (global, about 3%) have a doctor suspects drug-resistant strain of patients, or who were infected in (this country such as South Africa is common), the H I V....

In the low price of poor countries, about the size of the counter coffee machine units $ 17 k, cost, and $ 5 cartridges per test is required. In addition, the annual maintenance of the computer, and costing $ 1,000 or more is required.

You must still use how time-consuming follow-up of cases of old.


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