Saturday 6 December 2014

Treatment Outcomes for TB Patients Predicted by Imaging Techniques

Positron emission tomography (PET) and computed tomography (CT) are two medical imaging techniques can be reliably used together as a biomarker to help predict the effectiveness of antibiotic drug regimens. This is being tested to treat tuberculosis (TB) patients, according to researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health. With multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis ...

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