New Method May Allow Country-Level Real-Time Surveillance of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (IMAGE)

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New Method May Allow Country-Level Real-Time Surveillance of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis

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This week in PLOS Medicine, Karen Jacobson, from the Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center, and colleagues, describe a new technique for linking samples submitted for tuberculosis testing to the individuals who provided the samples and the location from where they were submitted, in a way that can provide the continuous national surveillance necessary for eradicating tuberculosis and drug-resistant tuberculosis.

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