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SUBMITTER: Gupta-Wright A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5824327 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gupta-Wright Ankur A Tomlinson Gillian S GS Rangaka Molebogeng X MX Fletcher Helen A HA
F1000Research 20180222
On 24th March, the world commemorates the day in 1882 when Dr Robert Koch announced his discovery of <i>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</i> (MTB). Over 130 years later, tuberculosis (TB) continues to affect individuals, communities, and entire health systems and economies. Koch unsuccessfully tried to 'cure' TB, and despite major advances in other areas of medicine, control of TB remains elusive- in 2016 TB was the leading infectious cause of death. The STOP TB partnership and World Health Organizati ...[more]