E-DRUG: Report and summary - Towards Lab-Free Tuberculosis Diagnosis
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Towards Lab-Free Tuberculosis Diagnosis
New MSF/TAG/Stop TB/Imperial College report and summary
- Towards Lab-Free Tuberculosis Diagnosis
by TAG, the TB/HIV Working Group of the Stop TB Partnership, Imperial
College and the MSF Access Campaign.
http://www.msfaccess.org/content/towards-lab-free-tuberculosis-diagnosis
This report provides an overview of the current state of science and
research on TB diagnostics, as well as an assessment of resources such as
specimen banks available for TB diagnostics research. It details some of
the key roadblocks to the development of a simple point-of-care test for
TB suitable for peripheral health centres, such as the need for novel
biomarkers that can be used to detect TB and can form the basis of test
design; the lack of specimen repositories to provide well-characterised
samples for the validation of these biomarkers; and the need for
technological breakthroughs in sample collection, processing and testing
to improve quality of materials collected from the site of disease to
enhance diagnostic accuracy.
Kind regards,
Michelle Vilk
Coordination and Communications Assistant
Médecins Sans Frontières
Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines
Rue de Lausanne 78
1211 Geneva, Switzerland
Tel: + 41(0) 22 849 89 02
Fax: + 41 (0) 22 849 84 04
michelle.vilk@geneva.msf.org