Tuberculosis Testing Market - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast 2014 - 2020 A new Transparency Market Research report states that the global tuberculosis testing market stood at US$1.9 bn in 2013 and is predicted to reach US$2.6 bn by 2020. It is predicted to expand at a CAGR of 4.30% from 2014 to 2020. The title of the report is “Tuberculosis Testing Market - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast 2014 - 2020.�
The global tuberculosis testing market continues to grow as governments and institutions across the globe continue to make efforts to eradicate this deadly communicable disease. Statistics gathered by the WHO state that 9 million people acquired tuberculosis (TB) in 2013 and 1.5 met a fatal end, out of which 360,000 were HIV positive. These figures are declining with each passing year thanks to the increasingly effective diagnosis and treatment options offered to patients. It is estimated that such initiatives were able to save the lives of 37 million tuberculosis patients between 2000 and 2013. Tuberculosis can be broken down into two types, namely active disease, which can transform to multi-drug resistant TB or MDR-TB, and latent disease. Tuberculosis also has a rare form called miliary TB, which occurs when TB infection finds its way to the bloodstream. The priority steps to counter MDR-TB are supreme quality of treatment for drugsusceptible TB to avert MDR-TB, expanding the reach of testing and