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MSF Symposium on TB field Diagnostics

Abstracts from MSF Symposium on TB field Diagnostics "TB: DYING for a TEST!" held at Cape Town on Nov 7, 2007 prior to 38th World Conference on Lung Health of IUATLD.

On November 7th, 2007 MSF held a satellite meeting at Cape Town prior to 38th World Conference on Lung Health of IUATLD. The symposium explored progress in appropriate TB, MDR-TB & XDR-TB diagnostics for resource-poor settings, focusing on:

  • challenges in TB diagnostics
  • best available tests that are still underused;
  • emerging technologies and
  • how to increase diagnostics development and roll-out.