With 2 million TB deaths per year, the new development is a huge medical breakthrough as it can diagnose and assess TB quickly, keeping a check on active infections

Malnutrition, which accounts for nearly one third of all childhood deaths in India, is also a major risk factor for the development of tuberculosis in children below the age of five

Doctors have said that every women with menstrual irregularities, reduced bleeding, scanty menses and infections in the cervix are likely suffering from genital TB