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Intervening along the spectrum of tuberculosis: meeting report from the World TB Day nanosymposium in the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine at the University of Cape Town

2020-05-28

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Tuberculosis (TB), caused by the highly infectious Mycobacterium tuberculosis , remains a leading cause of death worldwide, with an estimated 1.6 million associated deaths reported in 2017. In South Africa, an estimated 322,000 (range 230,000-428,000) people were infected with TB in 2017, and a quarter of them lost their lives due to the disease. Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) remains the only effective vaccine a...

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Literature Corpus work: b03ec291-f55d-5d8f-80c8-7ffd2638e486
DOI: 10.12688/gatesopenres.13035.4

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