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Conventional phase 3 trials do not provide key information about the overall effect of introducing a new tuberculosis vaccine programme and so are missing crucial information for policy makers, argue experts in a personal view in Lancet Microbe.

PBD Biotech is one of the companies represented at a parliamentary reception organised by the British In Vitro Diagnostics Association (BIVDA)

PBD Biotech, developers of Actiphage® TB, a ground-breaking phage-based diagnostic for laboratory tuberculosis testing, has today announced it has secured the grant of a US patent for its diagnostic kit.

Actiphage TB is to enter its third clinical trial, which is aimed at validating its utility as a tuberculosis diagnostic. The phage-based diagnostic has potential for detecting TB progression.

The bacteriophage-based diagnostic may play vital role in detecting TB progression

Without treatment 1 in 10 people with latent TB will progress to active TB but how can they be identified?

PBD Biotech to speak at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine anniversary celebrations

The UK’s first Centre for Phage Research is being officially launched on 16th May and featured in the UK KTN UK Phage Innovation Showcase will be Actiphage®, a phage-based molecular diagnostic for tuberculosis.

Accurate and rapid drug resistance testing is essential for early diagnosis of both drug-sensitive and drug-resistant TB.

We embrace the World TB day theme 'Yes! We Can End TB' with an educational webinar event on new diagnostic tests that are urgently needed to screen LTBI and determine who will progress to active TB disease.

The role of phage-based laboratory diagnostics in the detection of tuberculosis is to be discussed in a live webinar hosted by the AACC, it has been announced ahead of World TB Day.

Tuberculosis testing and treatment needs to happen close to the point of infection. PBD Biotech has developed a lyophilized PCR reaction bead for its Actiphage® blood test for active TB. This enables ambient shipping without the need for a cold...