Menssana - Breath Tests for Pulmonary Tuberculosis

There is a world-wide epidemic of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). Once thought to be a near-conquered disease, pulmonary TB is now killing more people than ever, especially those infected with HIV in developing countries. That ’s why there ’s an urgent need for a rapid, accurate and cost-effective point of care test for pulmonary TB is Breath testing could provide such a test because the mycobacteria that cause pulmonary TB generate a very distinctive pattern of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) when grown in the laboratory.