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
Research
24 June 2015
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.