• Title A low-cost, multiplexed, point-of-care test for extra-pulmonary tuberculosis
  • Granting Agency Grand Challenges Canada
  • Period 1 July 2011 – 30 June 2013
  • Amount $113,000 CAD

This project was meant to develop a point-of-care test for pleural TB.

Publications

Denkinger, Claudia M; Kalantri, Yatiraj; Schumacher, Samuel G; Michael, Joy S; Shankar, Deepa; Saxena, Arvind; Sriram, Natarajan; Balamugesh, Thangakunam; Luo, Robert; Pollock, Nira R; others,

Challenges in the development of an immunochromatographic interferon-gamma test for diagnosis of pleural tuberculosis (Journal Article)

In: PLoS One, vol. 8, no. 12, pp. e85447, 2013.

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Christopher, Devasahayam J; Schumacher, Samuel G; Michael, Joy S; Luo, Robert; Balamugesh, Thangakunam; Duraikannan, Paramasivan; Pollock, Nira R; Pai, Madhukar; Denkinger, Claudia M

Performance of Xpert MTB/RIF on pleural tissue for the diagnosis of pleural tuberculosis (Journal Article)

In: European Respiratory Journal, vol. 42, no. 5, pp. 1427–1429, 2013.

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Pai, Nitika Pant; Vadnais, Caroline; Denkinger, Claudia; Engel, Nora; Pai, Madhukar

Point-of-care testing for infectious diseases: diversity, complexity, and barriers in low-and middle-income countries (Journal Article)

In: PLoS Medicine, vol. 9, no. 9, pp. e1001306, 2012.

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