1. Addressing critical needs in the fight to end tuberculosis with innovative tools and strategies.
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Hatherill M, Chaisson RE, and Denkinger CM
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- Health Services Needs and Demand, Humans, Infection Control methods, Infection Control organization & administration, Infection Control trends, Inventions trends, Therapies, Investigational methods, Therapies, Investigational trends, Tuberculosis epidemiology, Disease Eradication methods, Disease Eradication organization & administration, Disease Eradication trends, Needs Assessment, Tuberculosis prevention & control
- Abstract
This month in PLOS Medicine we launched a Special Issue on New Tools and Strategies for Tuberculosis Diagnosis, Care, and Elimination. In this issue's Editorial, the Guest Editors Claudia Denkinger, Richard Chaisson, and Mark Hatherill highlight some of the research that will publish and how these studies focusing on discovery, clinical trials and implementation research collectively add to the prospects for reaching the EndTB targets of the WHO by 2035., Competing Interests: I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: REC, CMD, and MH are Guest Editors on the PLOS Medicine Tuberculosis Special Issue. Their competing interests can be found at: https://collections.plos.org/s/tb-special-issue-guest-editors.
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- 2019
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