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SUBMITTER: Khaliq A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5381859 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Khaliq Aasia A Ravindran Resmi R Hussainy Syed Fahadulla SF Krishnan Viwanathan V VV Ambreen Atiqa A Yusuf Noshin Wasim NW Irum Shagufta S Rashid Abdul A Jamil Muhammad M Zaffar Fareed F Chaudhry Muhammad Nawaz MN Gupta Puneet K PK Akhtar Muhammad Waheed MW Khan Imran H IH
PloS one 20170405 4
Over 9 million new active tuberculosis (TB) cases emerge each year from an enormous pool of 2 billion individuals latently infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb.) worldwide. About 3 million new TB cases per year are unaccounted for, and 1.5 million die. TB, however, is generally curable if diagnosed correctly and in a timely manner. The current diagnostic methods for TB, including state-of-the-art molecular tests, have failed in delivering the capacity needed in endemic countries to cu ...[more]