Evidence of mycobacterium tuberculosis complex bacteraemia

A clinical trial of Actiphage, a promising new diagnostic for tuberculosis infection, has shown for the first time that live bacteria can be detected in the blood of people with incipient TB infection.

Bacteriophages, viruses that infect and kill bacteria, offer the potential of a powerful tool for detecting and treating mycobacterial infections such as tuberculosis (TB), authors of a review in the journal Microorganisms* have reported.

Albert’s research, ‘Use of 2, 3, 5-Triphenyltetrazolium chloride (TTC) to assay the kinetics of phage and host interactions’, is sponsored by PBD Biotech through the BBSRC CASE initiative, and was co-authored by fellow Nottingham student Philip J. Hill and PBD...

Reported by Dr Catherine Rees at Viruses of Microbes 2016 Conference.