{"id":12973,"date":"2020-01-15T21:11:47","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T15:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=12973"},"modified":"2020-01-15T21:11:47","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T15:41:47","slug":"who-endorses-indigenous-molecular-diagnostic-tool-for-tuberculosis-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/who-endorses-indigenous-molecular-diagnostic-tool-for-tuberculosis-diagnosis\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO endorses indigenous molecular diagnostic tool for tuberculosis diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>The World Health Organisation(WHO) has endorsed TrueNat which is an indigenous molecular diagnostic tool for tuberculosis(TB) diagnosis.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About TrueNat:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The TrueNat is a new molecular test that can diagnose TB in one hour as well as testing for resistance to the drug rifampicin.<\/li><li>The test has been developed by the Indian firm MolBio Diagnostics Pvt Ltd Goa.<\/li><li>The test works by rapid detection of TB bacteria using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional information:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Tuberculosis (TB)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Tuberculosis<strong>(<\/strong>TB) is an infectious airborne bacterial disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis.<\/li><li>When TB infection becomes resistant to the first line of treatment \u2014 isoniazid and rifampicin it is called Multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB).&nbsp;<\/li><li>However,when the infection becomes resistant even to the second-line treatment it is called Extensively-drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB).<\/li><li>According to the Global Tuberculosis Report 2019,India had 26.9 lakh TB patients in 2018.<\/li><li>TB kills an estimated 4.8 lakh Indians every year and more than 1,400 every day.India has the highest TB burden in the world and also has more than a million \u2018missing\u2019 cases every year that are not notified.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Polymerase chain reaction(PCR):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a common laboratory technique used to make many copies (millions or billions) of a particular region of DNA.<\/li><li>The goal of PCR is to make enough of the target DNA region that it can be analyzed or used in some other way.<\/li><li>PCR is used in many areas of biology and medicine, including molecular biology research, medical diagnostics, and even some branches of ecology.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:The World Health Organisation(WHO) has endorsed TrueNat which is an indigenous molecular diagnostic tool for tuberculosis(TB) diagnosis. Facts: About TrueNat: The TrueNat is a new molecular test that can diagnose TB in one hour as well as testing for resistance to the drug rifampicin. The test has been developed by the Indian firm MolBio Diagnostics&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/who-endorses-indigenous-molecular-diagnostic-tool-for-tuberculosis-diagnosis\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WHO endorses indigenous molecular diagnostic tool for tuberculosis diagnosis<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[2781,1727],"class_list":["post-12973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-truenat","tag-tuberculosis","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704640602},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}