Bhubaneswar, Aug. 6 -- Leading tuberculosis experts on Thursday stressed the urgent need to strengthen Universal Drug Susceptibility Testing (UDST) and adopt advanced diagnostic technologies, including molecular diagnostics, genotypic testing, targeted next-generation sequencing (tNGS) and artificial intelligence (AI), to ensure early detection of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) and accelerate India's goal of eliminating the disease.
The experts were speaking at the two-day National Conclave and Policy Dialogue on Tuberculosis, organised by AIIMS Bhubaneswar in collaboration with the Policy Resilience Foundation (PRF). The conclave brought together policymakers, scientists, clinicians, programme officers, researchers, development partners...