tuberculosis

The portable, battery-operated system will be an interim solution for decentralized testing in places where power may be unreliable.

The 20-gene assay, which BioMérieux will develop on the BioFire FilmArray platform, distinguishes active TB from latent TB, viral, and bacterial infections.

At the recent CVS, the two large health systems described introducing Cepheid platforms for flu testing across rural and satellite locations.

Using a protocol developed at the University of Oxford, the researchers hope that nanopore sequencing can aid diagnosis and drug resistance profiling in remote areas.

The researchers said that their reagent, which makes TB cells emit light, could be integrated into slide-and-microscope testing platforms.