Tuberculosis (Diagnostics)

Rapid Testing Techniques could Reduce TB Mortality and Time to Treatment

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, November 10th, 1997

Delay in diagnosing tuberculosis and in obtaining drug susceptibility results is believed to have contributed to the number of people whose lives were lost during the TB epidemic the United States experienced between 1985 and 1993.

Current U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommendations are that all persons suspected of having pulmonary TB should have a sputum specimen: (a) obtained, (b) cultured, (c) identified, and (d) tested for drug susceptibility. Recent advances in techniques for culturing and identifying Mycobacterium tuberculosis can shorten the time to final diagnosis from six- eight weeks to three-four weeks. Although these...

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Source: TB and Outbreaks Week (1997-11-10)

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