Tuberculosis is one of the most common diseases, affecting a large number of people worldwide. Medical science constantly strives to achieve early diagnosis of tuberculosis bacterial infection to prevent its spread and ensure complete treatment of the disease.
World Tuberculosis Day is held annually on March 24th. “Yes! We can end TB!” is the slogan for 2023, aiming to encourage leaders worldwide to take action to stop the TB epidemic.
TB affects over 10 million people annually. This disease is preventable and curable, but as mentioned earlier, early diagnosis remains the key. Accurate diagnosis of TB early in the infection cycle can significantly help accelerate treatment and contain the spread of the disease.
Today, having reliable laboratory diagnostic kits that provide accurate and rapid results is one of the fundamental needs of medical diagnostic laboratories in the country, a need that has been met by relying on the capabilities and knowledge of domestic manufacturing companies. For example, the knowledge-based company ap-rad, as one of the pioneering companies in the field of manufacturing laboratory diagnostic reagents and kits, is currently producing and supplying various IVD-marked products for tuberculosis diagnosis under the AP-RAD brand in the domestic market. Among these products, we can mention the TB Fluorochrome Staining Kit, the Mycobacteria DNA Extraction Kit, and for the first time in the country, it has succeeded in producing and obtaining IVD approval from the General Administration of Medical Equipment of the Ministry of Health for the production of the NTM & MTC Qualitative Multiplex PCR Detection Kit.
