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Tuberculosis diagnostic technology: an African solution … think rats
Submitted: 30 January 2016 | Published: 31 March 2017
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Christiaan Mulder, Tuberculosis Department, Anti-Persoonsmijnen Ontmijnende Product Ontwikkeling (APOPO), Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania and Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, Amsterdam, NetherlandsGeorgies Mgode, Tuberculosis Department, Anti-Persoonsmijnen Ontmijnende Product Ontwikkeling (APOPO), Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania, United Republic of
Stewart E. Reid, Tuberculosis Department, Anti-Persoonsmijnen Ontmijnende Product Ontwikkeling (APOPO), Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania and Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States
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