Xpert GBS
Cambodia has received a new rapid diagnosis machine for tuberculosis and plans to purchase more in an attempt to stop the spread of the often-untreated disease, health officials said.
The Xpert, developed by the US medical technology company Cepheid, diagnoses and identifies drug-resistant tuberculosis based on DNA in between 20 minutes and two hours. Most tests currently take over a month.
According to Mao Tan Eng, director of the National Center for Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control, which is housing a machine loaned by Cepheid to the Cambodian health Committee in October, the new technology could fundamentally change how tuberculosis is treated in Cambodia. [Read full article…]
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