University of Oxford researchers at the John Radcliffe Hospital have developed a genetic test – details of which are published online today in the Lancet Infectious Diseases – that can detect which drugs will effectively treat people with the disease and those that will not.
New TB test to get sufferers on right drugs sooner
- 24 June 2015
- Research
Tuberculosis sufferers will be able get drug treatment sooner thanks to a new whole genome sequencing technique to determine for the first time which drugs to give sufferers, researchers in Oxford have reported.