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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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Researchers drugs used finally discovered as ivermectin, one of the main worm killing both animals and humans in decades, actually works.
Ivermectin, extracted from a soil fungus in the 1970s was originally known as Merioux years, pets deworm sold.
1987 Merck started on donations to fight million doses onchocerciasis or river blindness caused by microscopic worms spread by black fly bites are and in the sacrifice migrieren.Es is used eyes against lymphatic filariasis, that is by worms that spread by mosquitoes. Worms, the boxes in the lymph nodes warp and create the grotesque swollen legs and Scrotums as elephantiasis known.
Researchers from McGill and Michigan State universities were posted online in a study in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ivermectin directly kills the worms.It binds to proteins that apart from young worms, immune system to blockieren.Mit below the host move the worm's defence after white blood cells for the kill.Fortunately said Charles D. Mackenzie, Michigan State Professor of Veterinary Pathology and study author, drugs for humans, killing slowly, the worms leaving the eyes. Elder, he said killed, so fast, the dead body worm deteriorated blindness.
"Ivermectin"is an extremely safe drug", added Dr. Mackenzie.""We have given out 25 million doses in Tanzania and had only two minor side effects."
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