Blood test can predict risk of developing tuberculosis
Thursday, March 24, 2016 - 08:01
in Health & Medicine
Only a fraction of those infected with the bacterium that causes TB ever develops symptomatic illness. Now, an international team of researchers has identified biological markers in the blood of latently infected people that may lead doctors to a way to predict who is at high risk of developing active TB. If validated, a test based on these blood biomarkers would allow doctors to target therapies to at-risk people, thus preventing them from getting sick.