NANOPARTICLES IN TUBERCULOSIS DIAGNOSIS, TREATMENT AND PREVENTION: A HOPE FOR FUTURE

Scientific community believe that nanotechnology offers new ways to address residual scientific concerns for Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB). Nanoparticle-based systems have significant prospective for diagnosis, treatment and prevention of tuberculosis (TB). Nanoparticles based tuberculosis diagnostic kits are under trial and have fascinating in sense that it is not required skilled hand and also have low cost. Another significant advancement of this technology is that the using of nano particles as drug carriers are has high stability and carrier capacity. The possibility of drug administration by oral and inhalation route make it more advantageous. The controlled drug release from the matrix, such properties of nanoparticles enable improvement of drug bioavailability and reduction of the dosing frequency, and may resolve the problem of non adherence to prescribed therapy. The development of aerosol vaccine is undergoing which could provide a great potential in prevention of tuberculosis infection. Keeping in mind the role of nanoparticles in these three aspects like diagnosis, treatment and prevention of tuberculosis, this article is the attempts to compile these aspects in hope for better advancements.