Sunday, 4 May 2014

Genetic Discovery Could Improve the Diagnosis Of Childhood Tuberculosis

A distinctive genetic 'signature' found in the blood of children with tuberculosis (TB) offers new hope for treatment of TB. TB is very difficult to diagnose in children and is often recognised late when the child is already critically ill and the disease has spread from the lungs to the brain or other organs. Now an international team of researchers has shown that the disease can be identified in over 80 percent of cases by looking at 51 specific genes in the ...

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