Tuberculosis

BD and FIND Announce Expanded Collaboration to Improve Tuberculosis Diagnostics Worldwide

Published in Lab Business Week, April 8th, 2007

BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE:BDX), a leading global medical technology company, and FIND (Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics) announced an expanded collaboration toward improving the diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB).

Building on their two-year relationship to improve access to diagnostics in the developing world, BD and FIND formed this new collaboration in response to the emergence in many countries of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB). In September of 2006, the World Health Organization issued an alert about the threat of XDR-TB and called for the strengthening of TB control worldwide. Rapid, accurate diagnosis of TB will reduce the...

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