Release of new publication "Pathways to Better Diagnostics for Tuberculosis"
On December 3, 2009, at the World Lung Health Union Conference at Cancun, Mexico, the Stop TB Partnership's New Diagnostics Working Group released a new publication entitled:
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Pathways to Better Diagnostics for Tuberculosis: A blueprint for the development of TB diagnostics.This publication, with contributions from over 30 experts, aims to provide a comprehensive, well-referenced blueprint to guide researchers, clinicians, industry partners, academics, and TB controllers in all sectors in all aspects of TB diagnostics development, from concept to evaluation, implementation, scale-up, delivery and impact.
Russell Dacombe, LATH’s Technical Specialist in Laboratory Systems, was responsible for coordinating the author contributions, undertaking the technical editing from a science perspective, guiding the review process and daily keeping the project on course. Russell’s broad knowledge of the field was essential to collating together the very specific contributions provided by the authors.
The document is open access and can be distributed freely and posted on websites and newsletters.
