Tuberculosis is a chronic infection that has made a worldwide resurgence due to advent of HIV and AIDS. In addition to this there is rise of drug-resistant mycobacterium tuberculosis which further threatens the global TB control efforts. Therefore it is very necessary to have diagnostic measures that detect resistance of the drugs to a particular strain fast. Conventional methods take months to detect the resistance and the search is on for new ways to detect the resistance or multi drug resistance in patients of tuberculosis. [Read more...]
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