Exhaled Breath Analysis in Tuberculosis Case Detection: The New Horizon

Authors

  • Ranabir Pal Additional Professor
  • S Dahal Professor
  • A Gurung PhD scholar

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3126/nje.v3i2.8509

Abstract

Sixty years ago, Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling proposed the concept that human breath is a complex and dynamic gaseous mixture of more than 200 different endogenous volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that are continually being released in different quantities within the internal environment during health and disease. The researchers estimate that more than a thousand chemicals produced in different organ-systems as metabolic end products come out every minute through the respiratory tract. Volatile organic compounds and other products of oxidative stress are a big chunk among these exhaled breath elements.

DOI: http://doi.dx.org/10.3126/nje.v3i2.8509

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Author Biographies

Ranabir Pal, Additional Professor

Department of Community Medicine and Family Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur


S Dahal, Professor

Department of Chemistry, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Majitar, Sikkim

A Gurung, PhD scholar

Department of Chemistry, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Majitar, Sikkim

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Published

2013-06-26

How to Cite

Pal, R., Dahal, S., & Gurung, A. (2013). Exhaled Breath Analysis in Tuberculosis Case Detection: The New Horizon. Nepal Journal of Epidemiology, 3(2), 243–244. https://doi.org/10.3126/nje.v3i2.8509

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 2 (2013)

Section

Editorial

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