TrueNat TB, a new molecular test that can diagnose Tuberculosis (TB) in one hour as well as testing for resistance to the drug rifampicin, developed by Molbio Diagnostics has been awarded BioSpectrum Product of the year award 2020. Sriram Natarajan, Chief Executive Officer, Molbio Diagnostics, Goa received the award at a virtual ceremony held in March 2020
In a unique cross-industry collaboration, Qure.ai, Molbio Diagnostics, Fujifilm Corporation and Toyota Tsusho have come together for a TB detection program named 'Driving to find the missing millions'.
Jaipur: Given the ambitious target of achieving the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) of eliminating Tuberculosis (TB) by 2025, the state government has decided to start the mission from the villages.
The COVID-19 pandemic is having a devastating impact on the fight against tuberculosis worldwide, as many of the resources required to fight TB – labs, testing machines, health workers – have been diverted to fight COVID-19.
New Delhi, Mar 24 (PTI) Lakshadweep and Jammu and Kashmir''s Budgam district are the first in the country to be declared TB-free , Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan Singh said on Wednesday as he called for a "TB Mukt Bharat''.
Bengaluru : Lal Path Labs Foundation in association with their implementing partner, Mantra4Change which is a not-for-profit organisation working in the area of education, has donated two TrueNAT machines worth Rs 15 lakh, to Karnataka to help the State government's efforts to speed up Covid-19 testing and contain the spread of the virus. The machines were handed over to the health secretary's office on Wednesday.
To expand rapid, onsite COVID-19 confirmatory testing for symptomatic people who test
negative to rapid antigen tests, and facilitate tuberculosis screening of people with COVID-19
symptoms, FIND and IHF are deploying five Truenat™ machines at select MCGM-run hospitals
in Mumbai
LUCKNOW: In what may be seen as a silver lining to a dark cloud, the Covid-19 pandemic has helped create a robust infrastructure for TB testing. More than 200 sites for TB testing through Truenat method
Read moreThe objectives of the study were to validate the performance of Truenat Beta CoV and Truenat SARS-CoV-2 PoC assays for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 infected cases with reference to analytical sensitivity, precision/inter-machine variation, clinical sensitivity and clinical specificity.
Truelab, described as laboratory-in-a-suitcase technology has been repurposed to detect SARS-CoV-2 virus
