TUBERCULOSIS Diagnostics Technology Landscape

Tuberculosis (TB) continues to be a major public health threat despite being a curable disease. Latest figures from 20151 indicate an estimated 10.4 million people had TB, and 1.8 million people died (1.4 million HIV negative and 400 000 HIV positive). Of further concern is that 480 000 cases of multidrug-resistant (MDR) TBa and a further 100 000 that were estimated to be rifampicin-resistant (RR) TB have occurred in the same period.