Now, in fact, we are included in the Malagasy national network for the treatment of TB! We then moved on to practical training in the laboratory to make the operators who will then carry out the screening in the villages autonomous.
Let's find out together how it works GenExpert!
It seems appropriate to explain how screening with GenExpert takes place, to make it clear how “simple and fast” the use of this device purchased thanks toEight per Thousand of the Waldensian Church and how fast is the acquisition of the diagnosis of TB and possible resistance to the main antibiotics.
The person to be tested emits their sputum/phlegm inside a red-capped tube.
A small amount of material is taken from this tube with a pipette, which is then inserted into a tube containing the reagent (white cap), where the sample is left to incubate for 10 minutes.
Subsequently, the incubated sample is taken and transferred to the GenExpert cartridge (blue cap), equipped with an identifying Q-code.
The cartridge is then inserted into the GenExpert device, which automatically reads the Q-code and starts the analysis, also opening the relative display screen on the connected PC.
The estimated time for the entire procedure, including the analysis, is approximately 20 minutes.
