From the mouths of monkeys: New technique detects TB
Thursday, June 21, 2012 - 04:00
in Health & Medicine
(Phys.org) -- Tuberculosis can be a serious threat to monkeys and apes. A new technique for detecting the tuberculosis -causing bacteria could help in protecting the health of primate populations. The method can spot TB even among infected primates that show no outward sign of disease, but are still capable of spreading infection to others of their kind.