Hong Kong Respiratory Medicine

Claudia M Denkinger, Madhukar Pai.The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Early Online Publication, 18 October 2011doi:10.1016/S1473-3099(11)70257-2

Low-cost, point-of-care tests for HIV and malaria have completely transformed the management of these serious diseases. By contrast, suboptimum and delayed diagnosis of tuberculosis continues to fuel the epidemic in many high-burden countries, especially those with a high prevalence of HIV infection. The need for a instrument-free and laboratory-free, point-of-care test for tuberculosis cannot be overstated. Although the pipeline for tuberculosis diagnostics is substantially healthier than it wa ...

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