The findings could potentially be used to develop a TB test that would be as simple as the lateral flows used during the COVID-19 pandemic, a co-director of the study said.
A blood test that could identify millions of people who spread tuberculosis unknowingly is close to being developed, scientists have said. By comparing proteins found in the blood of people with active TB to those in healthy people and patients with lung infections, researchers from the University of Southampton discovered a group of six biological markers that are found in high levels among infectious patients.
Dr Schiff explained that TB spreads through people inhaling tiny droplets from coughs or sneezes of those infected. While it mostly affects the lungs, it can devastate any part of the body. She said the disease remains a 'global catastrophe' because efforts to control the spread are hindered by inadequate testing, meaning a third of people who get infected go undiagnosed and remain infectious.
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