WAYNE, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The enormous global problem of tuberculosis (with roughly one-third of the world’s population infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis), coupled with an increasing incidence of infections caused by nontuberculous mycobacteria, present unique challenges for the laboratory diagnosis of mycobacterial infections. The diagnosis of M. tuberculosis needs to be optimized and expedited for good patient management and appropriate control measures need to be implemented to prevent transmission of tuberculosis. There are similar demands for accurate identification of the ever-increasing numbers of species of nontuberculous mycobacteria.
