Opinion Paper

Stronger tuberculosis laboratory networks and services in Africa essential to ending tuberculosis

Philip C. Onyebujoh, Ajay K. Thirumala, Amy Piatek
African Journal of Laboratory Medicine | Vol 6, No 2 | a519 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/ajlm.v6i2.519 | © 2017 Philip C. Onyebujoh, Ajay K. Thirumala, Amy Piatek | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 30 June 2016 | Published: 31 March 2017

About the author(s)

Philip C. Onyebujoh, World Health Organization, Regional Office for Africa, Harare, Zimbabwe
Ajay K. Thirumala, TB Laboratories, Bangalore, India
Amy Piatek, Global Health Bureau, USAID, Washington, DC, United States

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Keywords

TB diagnosis; laboratory network

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