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Standard TB tests may not detect infection in certain exposed individuals

Study published in Nature Medicine UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS CLEVELAND MEDICAL CENTER CLEVELAND – An international collaboration of infectious disease experts has identified a large group of people who appear to have naturally mounted an immune response to TB, a bacterial infection that is the leading cause of infectious disease death worldwide. Nearly 200 people from 2500 households with active TB were...

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TGen and ABL pursue global rollout of advanced TB test

In an important step toward eradicating tuberculosis (TB), the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an affiliate of City of Hope, has signed a licensing agreement with an international biomedical firm, Advanced Biological Laboratories (ABL), to market and distribute TGen’s patented Next Generation Sequencing based TB test technology. For now, the test—called DeepChek-TB—is available for research...