On-Field Test of Tuberculosis Diagnosis through Exhaled Breath Analysis with a Gas Sensor Array.

ABSTRACT: Tuberculosis (TB) is among the more frequent causes of death in many countries. For pulmonary TB, early diagnosis greatly increases the efficiency of therapies. Although highly sensitive tests based on nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs) and loop-mediated isothermal amplification (TB-LAMP) are available, smear microscopy is still the most widespread diagnostics method in most low-middle-income countries, and the true positive rate of smear microscopy is lower than 65%. Thus, there is a need to increase the performance of low-cost diagnosis. For many years, the use of sensors to analyze the exhaled volatile organic compounds (VOCs) has been proposed as a promising alternative for the diagnosis of several diseases, including tuberculosis. In this paper, the diagnostic properties of an e

SUBMITTER: Ketchanji Mougang YC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10216756 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature