DIAGNOSTIC ASSAY FOR DETECTION OF ACTIVE TUBERCULOSIS

摘要

A rapid serologic test for detecting or monitoring in mammals the presence or absence of active tuberculosis, both pulmonary and extra-pulmonary, reactivation tuberculosis in latently infected mammals, distinguishing active from inactive tuberculosis in mammals and detecting the presence of drug-sensitive or the emergence of drug-resistant tuberculosis in mammals comprising assaying the presence or level of bacterial Glutamine Synthetase activity or of M. tuberculosis Glutamine Synthetase in that mammal.