| dc.creator |
Poling, A. |
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| dc.creator |
Beyene, N. |
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| dc.creator |
Valverde, E. |
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| dc.creator |
Mulder, C. |
|
| dc.creator |
Cox, C. |
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| dc.creator |
Mgode, G. |
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| dc.creator |
Edwards, T. L. |
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| dc.date |
2020-06-19T11:13:26Z |
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| dc.date |
2020-06-19T11:13:26Z |
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| dc.date |
2016 |
|
| dc.date.accessioned |
2022-10-25T08:53:36Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2022-10-25T08:53:36Z |
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| dc.identifier |
https://www.suaire.sua.ac.tz/handle/123456789/3088 |
|
| dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/93923 |
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| dc.description |
JOURNAL OF APPLIED BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS, 2016 |
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| dc.description |
Tuberculosis (TB) is a major problem in poor countries because sensitive diagnostic tools are unavail-
able. In 2014, our pouched rats evaluated sputum from 21,600 Tanzanians and 9,048 Mozambicans
whose sputum had previously been evaluated by microscopy, the standard diagnostic for TB. Evalua-
tion by the rats revealed 1,412 new patients with active TB in Tanzania and 645 new patients in
Mozambique, increases of 39% and 53%, respectively, when compared to detections by microscopy
alone. These results provide further support for the applied use of scent-detecting rats. |
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| dc.format |
application/pdf |
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| dc.language |
en |
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| dc.publisher |
2016 Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior |
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| dc.subject |
Applied behavior analysis |
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| dc.subject |
Discrimination training |
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| dc.subject |
Tuberculosis |
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| dc.subject |
Pouched rats |
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| dc.title |
Active tuberculosis detection by pouched rats in 2014: more than 2,000 new patients found in two countries |
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| dc.type |
Article |
|