Tuberculosis

Clinical Assessment Combined with Laboratory Assays Deliver Better Diagnosis

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, January 23rd, 2001

- by Sonia Bell-Nichols, staff medical writer -- Polymerase chain reaction, adenosine deaminase activity, and interferon (IFN)-gamma levels, when combined with an evaluation of clinical factors, provide the best and quickest way to diagnosis pleural tuberculosis.

This is good news for clinicians who have looked for better ways to diagnose pulmonary tuberculosis infections. "The inefficiency of conventional laboratory methods and the reliance on pleural biopsy have motivated the evaluation of alternative diagnostic strategies," M.V. Villegas et al. said.

Villegas and associates at the Center for International Training and Medical Investigation in...

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