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Researchers Develop Potentially Less-Expensive, Faster Method For Diagnosing TB
"A potentially cheaper and faster method for diagnosing tuberculosis (TB) has been developed by researchers" at the University of Basel, Switzerland, "who hope to test it in Tanzania," according to a study published in the Journal of Applied Microbiology last week, SciDev.Net reports. "The lack of a cheap, quick and accurate test makes it hard to control the TB epidemic, which claims millions of lives every year in developing countries," according to the news service.
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