APOPO News

GENEXPERT RESTORES SAMPLE THROUGHPUT

By Robert Burny | Country Program Manager, APOPO TB Mozambique APOPO adopts GeneXpert technology for confirmation tests Last year, Mozambican health authorities started a equipping clinics with WHO endorsed diagnostic technology that in order to find more TB-positive patients at clinics. Called a GeneXpert machine, it involves molecular TB tests to detect TB in sputum samples

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HERORATOS DE PALANCA

Por la Dra. Miriam Schneider | Investigadora principal Introducción de los HeroRATS al entrenamiento alternativo Mejorar la precisión de la detección del olor es uno de los objetivos más importantes de las ratas detectoras de tuberculosis de APOPO. El equipo de Investigación y Desarrollo (I+D) de APOPO se ha embarcado recientemente en el desarrollo de

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LEVER-PRESSING HERORATS

By Dr. Miriam Schneider | Senior Researcher Introducing the HeroRATS to alternative training  Improving the accuracy of scent detection is one of the most important aims for APOPO’s TB-detection rats. APOPO’s Research & Development (R&D) team recently embarked on the development of an alternative procedure, using an operant conditioning chamber to train the HeroRATs. APOPO researches

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