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Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Einstein and Pitt researchers develop new TB test that will dramatically cut diagnosis time
April 7th, 2009
March 19, 2009 – (BRONX, NY) – Researchers from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and The University of Pittsburgh have developed an onsite method to quickly diagnose tuberculosis (TB) and expose the deadly drug-resistant strains that can mingle undetected with treatable TB strains. This study will be published in PLoS ONE, a peer-reviewed online journal from the Public Library of Science. The researchers engineered bacteriophages, tiny viruses that attack bacteria, with a green fluorescence protein (GFP) implanted in their genome. Bacteriophages spread by injecting their DNA into bacterial cells. In this case, the GFP gene accompanies the DNA of the phage into...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2009-04-07)
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