Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the most important infectious diseases affecting a sobering
10 million people worldwide per year and causing 1.6 million deaths annually [
[1]
]. The large majority of cases are seen in Sub-Saharan Africa and in other low-and-middle-income
countries (LMIC) with strained health systems. The search for affordable diagnostic
tools is therefore a pressing topic for these countries. Over the past years, increasing
migration also brought TB patients to Europe, requiring European hospitals and physicians
to diagnose a disease [
[2]
], which used to be considered either “historical” or “tropical.”To read this article in full you will need to make a payment
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Published online: July 25, 2019
Accepted:
July 7,
2019
Received:
June 25,
2019
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