Rapid Triage Test Sniffs Out Active Tuberculosis Infections in Adults (1 of 5) (IMAGE)

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Rapid Triage Test Sniffs Out Active Tuberculosis Infections in Adults (1 of 5)

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In the Department of Parasitology and Entomology at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, first author Rushdy Ahmad trains local staff in processing blood samples. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Oct. 23, 2019, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by R. Ahmad at Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT in Cambridge, MA; and colleagues was titled, "A rapid triage test for active pulmonary tuberculosis in adult patients with persistent cough."

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[Credit: Rushdy Ahmad]

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