A team from Stellenbosch University's Desmond Tutu TB Centre will be monitoring 200 children at the Brooklyn Chest Hospital in Cape Town over the next five years in a potentially groundbreaking trial.
Researchers are hoping that new studies will ultimately improve treatment for the increasing number of children in the Western Cape that have contracted multidrug-resistant (MDR)TB.
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