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Researchers In Philippines Develop Machine To Quickly Detect Drug-Resistant TB
In this post in the Global Post's "Global Pulse" blog, journalist John Donnelly reports on how a machine developed by researchers at the TB Laboratory at the Lung Center of the Philippines "that can detect multi-drug resistant [tuberculosis (MDR-TB)] in record time may revolutionize TB treatment." According to the blog, the GeneXpert, dubbed by researchers as the "espresso maker," grew out of a collaboration among partners put together by the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics in Geneva and "can detect [MDR-TB] in two hours instead of the old way of growing cultures that took two months."
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