Updating the WHO target product profile for next-generation Mycobacterium tuberculosis drug susceptibility testing at peripheral centres.

• Main Authors: Emily Lai-Ho MacLean (Author), Paolo Miotto (Author), Lice González Angulo (Author), Matteo Chiacchiaretta (Author), Timothy M Walker (Author), Martina Casenghi (Author), Camilla Rodrigues (Author), Timothy C Rodwell (Author), Philip Supply (Author), Emmanuel André (Author), Mikashmi Kohli (Author), Morten Ruhwald (Author), Daniela Maria Cirillo (Author), Nazir Ismail (Author), Matteo Zignol (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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There were approximately 10 million tuberculosis (TB) cases in 2020, of which 500,000 were drug-resistant. Only one third of drug-resistant TB cases were diagnosed and enrolled on appropriate treatment, an issue partly driven by a lack of rapid, accurate drug-susceptibility testing (DST) tools deplo...