An international team of researchers has developed a urine test that can be used to detect tuberculosis (TB) in human patients. Alessandra Luchini and her team have developed a urine test for TB that gives results in 12 hours. The researchers report that the test detects TB at both low and high sugar levels, which means it can be used to test people at virtually any stage of the disease. They also report using the new test on 48 people in Peru known to have TB and found it has greater than 95 percent sensitivity.

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