Two out of five cases of TB remain undiagnosed. A test using a skin patch could help change that.
Detecting tuberculosis early could play a significant role in eradicating the world’s most deadly infectious disease. The World Health Organization says 1.5 million people die from this devastating disease each year.
GeneXpert technology, the current gold standard for TB diagnosis, can detect the disease in an hour but is expensive and not available in remote areas.One of the new routes to better diagnosis may be through detecting TB on the skin.Some cancers, for example, produce signs which dogs, with a sense of smell anywhere from 1,000 to 10,000 times better than that of humans, can be trained to detect.
It all started with the mosquito In 2021 we looked into why mosquitoes bite some people and not others. We found chemical differences between the volunteers who were attractive to mosquitoes and those who were not.
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