• nanoporetech
• 10 Sep, 2018

With over 10 million new cases worldwide each year and approximately 1.7 million deaths, tuberculosis (TB) is one of the leading global threats to human health1 . While disease detection and control methods have yielded a steady decline in the number of deaths attributable to TB, the emergence of multi-drug resistant (MDR) strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis — the predominant cause of TB — is threatening to undermine these efforts2 . Such strains are resistant to the most effective first-line
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