| Cheap $5 test for drug resistant tuberculosis: could save 1.5 million lives per yearA molecular test developed by Hain Lifescience and Innogenetics (INNX.BR) represents a big breakthrough in the fight against tuberculosis, a contagious respiratory ailment that kills 1.5 million people a year. The WHO is deploying to a dozen countries and has efforts to make second-line antibiotics more affordable, should increase to 15% the proportion of patients with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis who are diagnosed and treated appropriately. (now 2%.) TB #2 infectious disease. Aids #1. |
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