TB diagnosis in patients with rats in Africa

Tanzania health magazine: They recognize the smell hidden mines in large mice successfully land found in Africa, but now they can use the project to identify TB (tuberculosis), killing 20 million people each year are.
A Belgian non-governmental organization has so far trained 50 rats to identify tuberculosis after USA funding. Four weeks after the birth of the rats begin their training. The rats are trained to humans and to blend them. It takes four days to identify TB in sputum and waste a patient in the laboratory, but tell the smell is a trained rat 100 samples in just 20 minutes or TB patient.

The NGO has identified more than 3 million 36 thousand specimens and help prevent further infection. Have shared dozens clinic for her. The disease is very common in Tanzania facilitate its identification is negligible. Lepers in Tanzania TB and program specialist doctor says mice will help in the identification and treatment of TB.
The mice are recognized in seconds if tests show that you have TB bacteria in human saliva samples. American experts say it is possible to identify TB patients on a large scale by the rats. Now, the number of TB patients in prisons around the world where they will be tried in prisons and poor areas of Tanzania is 10 times more.