Poeptest of the Netherlands is a breakthrough in the fight against tuberculosis

Child-Friendly

The Dutch Foundation for Tuberculosis Control, KNCV, has developed the revolutionary virus to diagnose tuberculosis in children. In addition, the test is simple, inexpensive and child-friendly.

4,000 deaths a day

With 4,000 deaths a day, tuberculosis remains the most deadly infectious disease in the world. Of those who died, about 650 children a day, or 233,000 children a year. Useless because the TBC is easy to process.

Slime

It is possible to easily and reliably determine pulmonary tuberculosis mucosa cough. But for young children, it's hard to cough on command. For this reason, the research material can be extracted from the stomach or nasal cavity with the help of a tube. This is traumatic for children and their parents and doctors are often reluctant to apply these child-resistant methods. In addition, small health centers often do not have the necessary equipment. As a result, the fatal disease in many children is neither detected nor detected too late.

Tuberculosis bacteria found in poo

up to now, only in high quality laboratories. Local laboratories in developing countries, where TB is common, do not have these options, "said Petra de Haas, a lab specialist, at the KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation

a new test from De Haas:" We started to look for if it could not be simpler. We have now found a method with which TBC is easy to detect and is resistant to the most important antibiotics. The same machine – GeneXpert – can be used in small laboratories around the world for mucus testing. "

Experiments

The first experiments of this" KNCV test "took place in a laboratory in Ethiopia.To finance this, the staff of the KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation led the City-Pier- City last year, raising 10,000 euros.The method was then tested on children in Indonesia.The results show that the method works well.De Haas: "This is promising. We will continue testing in Indonesia and Ethiopia to refine the method and gain more practical experience. The goal is to gather enough data to modify the World Health Organization guidelines so that each country can use this method. "

2020

" Every child has the right to be diagnosed and treated on time. ", says Kitty van Weezenbeek, director of the KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation." Due to low availability and reluctance to current invasive methods, many children are denied this right. It is unethical to continue, while we know that this method works. Our goal is that by 2020, every child, wherever he is in the world, has access to our test list. "