Internews in Kenya | Hope for TB Patients as Test Kit is Put Up

Hope for TB Patients as Test Kit is Put Up

A promising and innovative diagnostic test with a new machine referred to as Gene Xpert will be able to detect drug resistant tuberculosis in less than three hours. The new test has a sensitivity rate of 90 per cent and will enable doctors detect more people with Drug resistant-TB, thus increasing the urgency to respond to challenges of the pricing and supply of the medicines.

Source: Reject Newspaper, Pg. 6

Date: Monday, 01 Aug 2011

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