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John Donnelly
Published: July 12, 2012, 6:09 p.m.·
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WASHINGTON, DC—Mario Raviglione has been the director of the World Health Organization’s Stop TB Department since 2003. He spoke with John Donnelly about his frustrations with detecting cases of multidrug-resistant TB as well as the slowness in the use of the GeneXpert machine, which can detect drug-resistant TB in two hours, compared to two months from older tests.
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By
John Donnelly
Published: May 17, 2012, 7:13 p.m.·
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There haven't been any new TB drugs for over 40 years. But an unlikely partnership between non-profits and a mining company may save thousands of lives in the search for a new vaccine.
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