The World Health Organization is endorsing a new tuberculosis testing apparatus that does not need trained laboratory technicians and takes less than two hours.
Cephid is a new device to make diagnosis of tuberculosis within 2 hours and does not require trained personnel to perform the task. Considering it may take up to 3 months to see if the bacterium is resistant to the most common TB drug, rifampicin. This device is only approved to be used in the third world countries as there are severe shortage of qualified professionals. If this device was approved to be used in the USA, it would have relieve the burden of long wait to see resistance to TB drugs.
Via The New York Times-Tuberculosis: World Health Organization Endorses a Device for Quicker Diagnosis
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