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Cutting Edge: New TB test kit can detect latent infection

Cutting Edge: New TB test kit can detect latent infection

With India chasing the target of eliminating tuberculosis by 2025, five years ahead of the global sustainable development goal, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya recently announced a “Made in India” TB skin test to be used in the disease control mission.

The test, which will be manufactured and marketed as Cy-TB by the Serum Institute of India, is a slightly tweaked version of a century-old test where a protein extract of…


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