To honor the World TB Day on Mar 24, 2015, California-based molecular diagnostics provider Cepheid CPHD along with the National Health Laboratory Services (NHLS) of South Africa, recently announced ...

The projects were often the first implementers of the MTB/RIF test for TB case detection in their respective countries. Table 1 provides an overview of the selected nine TB REACH projects including ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The development of the Xpert MTB/RIF assay has been the most important breakthrough for the diagnosis of ...

Danaher Corporation, which sells the Xpert MTB/RIF molecular test for diagnosing tuberculosis (TB) and rifampicin resistance, has announced a lowering of the price of its standard TB test cartridge to ...

US-based leading molecular diagnostics company, Cepheid Inc - a wholly owned subsidiary of Danaher, unveiled its newest configuration in the GeneXpert family of systems, the GeneXpert Edge, in the ...

New agreement aims to provide greater access to millions more high-quality tuberculosis (TB) tests for people living in the least developed countries where the need is most urgent. Enables the Global ...

Two research studies in this week's PLoS Medicine suggest that a new automated DNA test for tuberculosis (Xpert MTB/RIF), which can detect TB within 2 hours and has been endorsed by the World Health ...

Activists have sent another letter to Cepheid, the manufacturer of the revolutionary GeneXpert multi-drug resistant TB diagnostic machine, urging them to bring down the price of their products so that ...

UNITAID is a global health initiative established in 2006 by the governments of Brazil, Norway, Chile, France and the UK to increase access to medicines in 94 low and middle income countries. The ...

https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/us-company-cepheid-to-make-top-end-tb-detection-cartridges-in-india/article24400989.ece Copy As India sets itself an ...

Danaher Corporation said it would cut the price of its TB testing cartridges by 20 percent. The company will provide Cepheid's Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra diagnostic test cartridges for tuberculosis (TB) at ...