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APOPO’s tuberculosis research agenda: achievements, challenges and prospects
This article describes Anti-Persoonsmijnen Ontmijnende Product
Ontwikkeling (APOPO) recent use of specially trained African giant
pouched rats as detectors of pulmonary tuberculosis in people living in
Tanzania. It summarizes the achievements and challenges encountered
over the years and outlines future prospects. Since 2008, second-line
screening by the rats has identified more than 2000
tuberculosis-positive patients who were missed by microscopy at Direct
Observation of Treatment – Short Course centres in Tanzania.
Moreover, data that are reviewed herein have been collected with
respect to the rats’ sensitivity and specificity in detecting
tuberculosis. Findings strongly suggest that scent-detecting rats offer
a quick and practical tool for detecting pulmonary tuberculosis and
within the year APOPO’s tuberculosis-detection project will be
extended to Mozambique. As part of its local capacity building effort,
APOPO hires and trains Tanzanians to play many important roles in its
TB detection project and provides research and training opportunities
for Tanzanian students
Workshop on B Physics at the Tevatron : Run 2 and Beyond
This report presents the results of the workshop devoted to study B Physics at the Tevatron: Run II and Beyond. Like other workshops on the physics potential of Run II of the Tevatron, held at Fermilab from 1998–2000, this workshop brought together theorists from around the world and experimenters from the CDF, DØ, and BTeV collaborations, and elsewhere.This report provides a comprehensive overview of the prospects for B physics at the Tevatron. The work was carried out during a series of workshops starting in September 1999. There were four working groups: 1) CP Violation, 2) Rare and Semileptonic Decays, 3) Mixing and Lifetimes, 4) Production, Fragmentation and Spectroscopy. The report also includes introductory chapters on theoretical and experimental tools emphasizing aspects of B physics specific to hadron colliders, as well as overviews of the CDF, D0, and BTeV detectors, and a Summary