There’s a large unmet need for accurate, fast, and inexpensive tests to identify patients who have active tuberculosis (ATB), which claims the lives over a million people per year. A team of researchers from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), and several other collaborating institutions have created a fast, ultrasensitive, multiplexed triage test for ATB that could be used in low-resource settings to identify patients who are at high risk for ATB and need immediate medical attention.
Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University
Rapid Triage Test for Active Pulmonary Tuberculosis