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ArticleClinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases2025

Revisiting diagnostics: high priority tuberculosis diagnostic tests that fill an unmet need: what we need and what we do not need.

Christoph Lange, Anna Maria Mandalakas, Troels Lillebaek, Dumitru Chesov, Keertan Dheda, Francesca Saluzzo

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Article in Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors.

Christoph LangeDivision of Clinical Infectious Diseases, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany; German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), TTU-TB, Borstel, Germany; Respiratory Medicine & International Health, University of Lübeck, Germany; Department of Pediatrics, Division of Global and Immigrant Health, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, USA. Electronic address: clange@fz-borstel.de.
Anna Maria MandalakasDivision of Clinical Infectious Diseases, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany; German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), TTU-TB, Borstel, Germany; Department of Pediatrics, Division of Global and Immigrant Health, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, USA.
Troels LillebaekInternational Reference Laboratory of Mycobacteriology, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark; Global Health Section, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Dumitru ChesovDivision of Clinical Infectious Diseases, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany; German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), TTU-TB, Borstel, Germany; Discipline of Pneumology and Allergology, Nicolae Testemitanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova.
Keertan DhedaCentre for Lung Infection and Immunity, Division of Pulmonology, Department of Medicine and UCT Lung Institute & South African MRC/UCT Centre for the Study of Antimicrobial Resistance, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa; Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Department of Immunology and Infection, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
Francesca SaluzzoDepartment of Immunology, Transplantation and Infectious Diseases, Vita Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy; Department of Immunology, Transplantation and Infectious Diseases, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.

Funding

Quantifiable stool-based TB PCR to Improve Diagnostics and Treatment MonitoringR01AI137527 · NIAID · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI MANDALAKAS, ANNA M · 2019 to 2022
$2.7M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI137527
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