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Improved diagnosis, drug resistance detection and control of tuberculosis in Latin America

Objective

A strategic obstacle to the improvement of tuberculosis (TB) control is the lack of inexpensive and facile techniques that can replace the slow and laborious conventional methods for diagnosing TB and detecting drug resistance. However, there are newer, more appropriate methodologies that warrant further evaluation. This CA will develop, adapt and evaluate some of these promising new tools. It will build upon collaborations that have developed between a network of European researchers and their Latin America colleagues. Preliminary studies by this group have begun to address some of the objectives in this CA, and the work outlined will expand these collaborations to develop useful and appropriate methodologies This project will test them in multicentrer pilot studies modify them when necessary and run prospective clinical trials in high endemic TB areas for accuracy, cost, ease of implementation and impact on TB control.

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INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE PRINCE LEOPOLD
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Nationalestraat 155
2000 ANVERS /ANTWERPEN
Belgium

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