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ajlm-608	Piatek, Amy	Tuberculosis diagnostic networks: Moving beyond the laboratory to end tuberculosis in Africa	2017		.htm	text/html	1055	46	32	Although undiagnosed tuberculosis is a small proportion of the overall missing cases, increasing prevalence of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis will eventually diminish Africa’s current successes toward stopping the tuberculosis epidemic.1 Even if all Africans with presumptive tuberculosis or multidrug-resistant tuberculosis accessed a diagnostic facility, the predominant testing method using smear microscopy will accurately detect tuberculosis in 20% to 80% of tuberculosis cases, depending on the report and method used.2 Tuberculosis is a curable disease when diagnosed early and treated with an appropriate drug regimen, yet 750 000 Africans die unnecessarily every year from tuberculosis.	cache/ajlm-608.htm	txt/ajlm-608.txt