The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans displays a chemotaxis behavior to tuberculosis-specific odorants

A simple, affordable diagnostic test for pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) is urgently needed to improve detection of active Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Recently, it has been suggested that animal behavior can be used as a biosensor to signal the presence of human disease. For example, the giant African p...

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Main Authors: Mário F. Neto, Quan H. Nguyen, Joseph Marsili, Sally M. McFall, Cindy Voisine
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-08-01
Series:Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405579416300079