{"id":862,"date":"2015-09-08T12:08:02","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T11:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medicinedev.st-andrews.ac.uk\/?p=862"},"modified":"2015-09-08T12:08:02","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T11:08:02","slug":"validate-evaluating-the-utility-of-omnigenesputum-for-sputum-liquefaction-decontamination-preservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/validate-evaluating-the-utility-of-omnigenesputum-for-sputum-liquefaction-decontamination-preservation\/","title":{"rendered":"VALIDATE: New research contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2015\/10\/OMSPDcontents.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-863 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/med.st-andrews.ac.uk\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2015\/10\/OMSPDcontents-300x290.jpg\" alt=\"OMSPDcontents\" width=\"300\" height=\"290\" \/><\/a>We are delighted to announce the signing of a research contract between the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/\">University of St. Andrews<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnagenotek.com\/ROW\/index.html\">DNA Genotek Inc<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>VALIDATE stands for:\u00a0eVAluating the utiLity of OMNIgene\u00ae\u2022SPUTUM for sputum lIquefaction, DecontAminaTion &amp; prEservation.<\/p>\n<p>The research will evaluate the effectiveness of a novel kit for processing sputum from Tuberculosis (TB) patients with a view of simplifying TB diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p>The kit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnagenotek.com\/ROW\/products\/OM-SPD.html\">OMNIgene<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>\u2022SPUTUM<\/a>\u00a0is three-in-one: it liquefies sputum and kills non-TB organisms while preserving the viability of\u00a0<em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis<\/em>\u00a0thus increasing the accuracy of downstream diagnostic procedures for TB. This work will be done in partnership with Mozambique\u2019s National TB reference laboratory, which is part of the Maputo-based National Institute of Health (MNIH).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to announce the signing of a research contract between the University of St. Andrews and DNA Genotek Inc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":863,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[277,410,820,1130],"class_list":["post-862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorised","tag-dna-genotek-inc","tag-dr-wilber-sabiti","tag-omnigene-sputum","tag-tuberculosis"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 21:36:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}