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…