A significant number of Tuberculosis (TB) cases go undetected due to the limited sensitivity of smear microscopy, the most common diagnostic test for TB in India.

Gorakhpur: Conventional smear microscopy, though widely used in India, misses detection of many tuberculosis (TB) cases, particularly among patients with low bacterial load, said associate professor ...

Two studies by a team of researchers led by Luis E. Cuevas and Mohammed Yassin from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and jointly coordinated with Andrew Ramsay at WHO-TDR Special Programme ...

In low-incidence, high-resource settings, Xpert Mycobacterium Tuberculosis/Rifampicin Ultra (Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra [Xpert-Ultra]) testing, an automated nucleic acid ...

A significant number of Tuberculosis (TB) cases continue to go undetected due to the limited sensitivity of smear microscopy, the most commonly used diagnostic test for TB in India.