Cepheid Announces New Diagnostic Technology to Aid World Efforts in Halting the Spread of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis (TB)
SUNNYVALE, Calif. March 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cepheid (Nasdaq: CPHD ) today announced details of technology expected to revolutionize the speed of diagnosis of
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) and the resistance to common drug treatment for the disease.
The new test techn...
Bacteria pack their own demise
...intestinal residents, Escherichia coli bacteria, more commonly known as E.coli, have such a T-A system in five different locations in their DNA, while
mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria even have them in 60 locations.
A difficult feat
The T-A mechanism has been known for a while, but nobody clearly understo...
Transave Enters Into Cooperative Research Agreement With NIH To Study ARIKACE(TM) In Nontuberculous Mycobacteria
...s have been assessed for this disease in many years.
"Patients with
mycobacterium avium complex or
mycobacterium abscessus lung disease have limited options, which is why we welcome the o...
Magellan Diagnostic Businesses to Feature Automated Systems and Diagnostic Tests at Clinical Lab Expo
...robial-detection system performs four tests on one automated platform: culture for blood, sterile body fluids, and mycobacteria detection, as well as
mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) susceptibility testing. With a proven "tough-bug" advantage and reduced time to detection, Trek designed the VersaTREK system to imp...
CEL-SCI Files Patent Application to Support Company's Treatment for More Virulent Strain of H1N1 Swine and Other Influenza Viruses
...crobiology in Philadelphia, PA. This TB data demonstrated that vaccines utilizing the L.E.A.P.S. vaccine technology with specificity for particular
mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) antigens can elicit immune responses that would be expected to be protective against tuberculosis and have the potential to treat s...
Cepheid Announces Symposium Speakers and Program Highlights for 19th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID)
... Test for
mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) Expected to Highlight Broad On-D... expect to showcase our Xpert(R) MTB/RIF test for
mycobacterium tuberculosis - a product that, in my opinion, is ... Diagnostic test for the simultaneous detection of
mycobacterium tuberculosis and resistance to rifampicin
...
Sequella Receives SBIR Funding Grant from the NIH for Further Development of Tuberculosis Drug SQ609
...000 new molecular entities with activity for a broad spectrum of infectious diseases. Orally bioavailable with excellent single-drug activity against
mycobacterium tuberculosis in vitro and in vivo , SQ609 has demonstrated synergistic activity with several front-line antitubercular drugs and can be readily sy...
Infectious Disease Research Institute Receives Grant for Acquisition of Core Research Equipment from M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust
... left untreated. -- Tuberculosis is a worldwide health problem. Caused by
mycobacterium tuberculosis infection, every fifteen seconds someone in the developing...of Congo, Madagascar, Mozambique, Nepal, and Tanzania. It is caused by
mycobacterium leprae infection. -- Chagas disease, caused by Typanosoma cruzi infection,...
BoVir(R) Named Best New Veterinary Diagnostics Product in International Animal Pharm Awards
...n demands. Its worldwide diagnostics distribution also includes
BSE screening, and ParaTub(R), an automated, high throughput test for the
detection of
mycobacterium paratuberculosis (Johne's disease), an incurable
cattle infection impacting the beef and dairy cattle industry. For more information on the annual An...
Examples of Electro-Transfected Eukaryotic and Prokaryotic Cells
... Leuconostoc (3 species)
Listeria (5 species)
mycobacterium (3 species)
Pediococcus acidilactici
Propionibacteriu... Acholeplasma laidlawii
Methylophillus (3 species)
mycobacterium (4 species)
Serpula hyodysenteriae
Spiroplasma citri ...
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
.... 4308 915.524 03/2002
Microorganism
mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv
Cell type
Bacteria, gram positive
Molecules in...
Mycobacterium smegmatis
.... 4308 915.522 03/2002
Microorganism
mycobacterium smegmatis LR222
Cell type
Bacteria, gram positive
Molecules injec...
Mycobacterium intracellulare
.... 4308 915.521 02/2002
Microorganism
mycobacterium intracellulare 1403
Cell type
Bacteria, gram positive
Molecules i...
Mycobacterium avium
.... 4308 915.523 03/2002
Microorganism
mycobacterium avium
Cell type
Bacteria, gram positive
Molecules injected
...
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
.... 4308 915.524 03/2002
Microorganism
mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv
Cell type
Bacteria, gram positive
Molecules in...
Mycobacterium smegmatis
.... 4308 915.522 03/2002
Microorganism
mycobacterium smegmatis LR222
Cell type
Bacteria, gram positive
Molecules injec...
Mycobacterium intracellulare
.... 4308 915.521 02/2002
Microorganism
mycobacterium intracellulare 1403
Cell type
Bacteria, gram positive
Molecules i...
Mycobacterium avium
.... 4308 915.523 03/2002
Microorganism
mycobacterium avium
Cell type
Bacteria, gram positive
Molecules injected
...
Brilliant Core Reagent Kits for QPCR and QRT-PCR
... Plus QPCR core reagent kit with
different fluorescent chemistries, we used a Scorpions probe to detect and
amplify the 134-bp rpoB gene target of
mycobacterium tuberculosis, an
emergent pathogen. We amplified and detected 100, 1000, and 10,000 copies of the
M. tuberculosis target gene; the respective Ct v...