Epidemiology Are more dangerous strains of tuberculosis spreading in Southern Africa?
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Are more dangerous strains of tuberculosis spreading in Southern Africa? LSHTM investigators: Peter Godfrey-Faussett, Ruth McNerney, Kim Mallard, Helen Ayles. Collaborators: ZAMBIA: ZAMBART Project; University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka; MOH Chest Diseases Laboratory. Malawi: Community Health Sciences Unit of the Ministry of Health and National TB Programme; EQUI –TB Knowledge Programme (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK and Malawi). Sudan: Molecular Tuberculosis Research Laboratory of the Ministry of Health National Health Laboratory.
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