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Advances in the diagnosis of tuberculosis: current status and future prospects

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Lack of diagnosis and diagnostic capacity remain barriers to tuberculosis (TB) control. This review describes recent advances in TB diagnostics, the current TB diagnostic landscape, and some of the key challenges in the quest for accurate, simple diagnostic tests that have meaningful impact on the health of individual patients and on TB epidemiology.

Keywords: diagnostics; review; tuberculosis

Document Type: Research Article

Affiliations: Center for Tuberculosis Research, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Publication date: 01 May 2015

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