In the December 2010 issue of the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygine, Bart Weetjens, founder and development director of the social enterprise Anti-Persoonsmijnen Ontmijnende Product Ontwikkeling (APOPO) based in Tanzania, Africa, and colleagues reported on a study that found the use of sniffer rats improved TB detection by 44% over the use of microscopy alone.
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