Current standard diagnostics for TB include sputum microscopy, sputum nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs), and chest radiography. Priorities to reduce TB incidence and mortality include new diagnostic tests that are rapid, affordable, and easy to use at the point of care. Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the leading causes of death from a single infectious agent worldwide and was responsible for 1.5 million deaths in 2020. Under the grant conditions of the Foundation, a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Generic License has already been assigned to the Author Accepted Manuscript version that might arise from this submission.Ĭompeting interests: The authors have no competing interests to declare. The funders were involved in the design of the study, but had no role in data collection, data analysis, decision to publish or preparation of the manuscript. AG and EW are the PI and co-PI, respectively, for this grant. įunding: This work was supported, in whole or in part, by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Grant Number OPP1212544). This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.ĭata Availability: The primary data that support the findings of this study are available via an online repository available at Africa Health Research. Received: FebruAccepted: SeptemPublished: October 6, 2022Ĭopyright: © 2022 Fentress et al. Kerkhoff, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, UNITED STATES
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