Development of Antigen Detection Assay for Mycobacterium Tuberculosis: Assay for Diagnosis of Tuberculosis - Couverture souple

Meena, Laxman Singh

 
9783659185533: Development of Antigen Detection Assay for Mycobacterium Tuberculosis: Assay for Diagnosis of Tuberculosis
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3659185531 ISBN 13 : 9783659185533
Editeur : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

Although 150 years have elapsed since the discovery of the tubercle bacillus by Robert koch, tuberculosis remains globally a serious and important infectious disease. With the AIDS scourge the disease has gained prominence among the infectious diseases and projections are that large number of cases of tuberculosis will be attributable to HIV infection. Therefore keeping in mind the needs of a developing country, a simple and an inexpensive diagnostic test is required to pick up infected cases so that an early therapy could be initiated. Unfortunately all currently available tests for tuberculosis fall short of their goals. Traditionally used sputum culture techniques, although cheap, take 6 weeks or longer and fail to detect sputum negative and non pulmonary tuberculosis cases. The more recent trend towards developing PCR based technology is academically interesting but due to its high cost, technical skill requirement and presence of large number of bacteria in environment including air may result into false prediction. Serological tests to detect antibodies to tubercular antigens such as an ELISA type test may be more useful and relevant for the Indian scenario. Several

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Although 150 years have elapsed since the discovery of the tubercle bacillus by Robert koch, tuberculosis remains globally a serious and important infectious disease. With the AIDS scourge the disease has gained prominence among the infectious diseases and projections are that large number of cases of tuberculosis will be attributable to HIV infection. Therefore keeping in mind the needs of a developing country, a simple and an inexpensive diagnostic test is required to pick up infected cases so that an early therapy could be initiated. Unfortunately all currently available tests for tuberculosis fall short of their goals. Traditionally used sputum culture techniques, although cheap, take 6 weeks or longer and fail to detect sputum negative and non pulmonary tuberculosis cases. The more recent trend towards developing PCR based technology is academically interesting but due to its high cost, technical skill requirement and presence of large number of bacteria in environment including air may result into false prediction. Serological tests to detect antibodies to tubercular antigens such as an ELISA type test may be more useful and relevant for the Indian scenario. Several

Biographie de l'auteur

Dr. Laxman S. Meena, senior scientist in Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR), New Delhi, India. Dr. Meena works in the area of infectious diseases. He has been involved in research on the GTP-binding proteins and Adenylate Kinases of M. tuberculosis H37Rv and their role in the survival of the pathogen inside the host.

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Éditeur
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3659185531
ISBN 13 
9783659185533
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
168
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