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What is Actiphage TB?

Actiphage is the only blood-based test that combines phage technology to detect only active, disease-causing mycobacteria with traditional qPCR methods, resulting in a highly specific and sensitive novel diagnostic assay. Actiphage has advantages of simple blood collection, rapid turnaround, and low cost production.

Rapid turnaround time

Actiphage only requires one visit to collect blood samples and analysis takes 6-8 hours to produce a result.

High sensitivity

The test only works on viable, active mycobacteria. Actiphage is more sensitive than any other test currently available, able to detect fewer than 10 live mycobacteria in a 2ml blood sample.

High specificity

The technology has built-in high-level specificity controls and is able to identify any species of mycobacteria that is susceptible to the bacteriophage and distinguish between them.

High accuracy

Actiphage can reproducibly distinguish between live and dead mycobacteria, meaning that a positive result will only be delivered if there are live mycobacteria in the sample.

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Actiphage journey 2022

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