South Africa: MDR-TB Trials Could Make a Tangible Difference for Children

9 February 2012

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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