Active tuberculosis detection by pouched rats in 2014: more than 2,000 new patients found in two countries
| dc.contributor.author | Poling, A. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Beyene, N. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Valverde, E. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Mulder, C. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Cox, C. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Mgode, G. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Edwards, T. L. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-06-19T11:13:26Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-06-19T11:13:26Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
| dc.description | JOURNAL OF APPLIED BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS, 2016 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Tuberculosis (TB) is a major problem in poor countries because sensitive diagnostic tools are unavail- able. In 2014, our pouched rats evaluated sputum from 21,600 Tanzanians and 9,048 Mozambicans whose sputum had previously been evaluated by microscopy, the standard diagnostic for TB. Evalua- tion by the rats revealed 1,412 new patients with active TB in Tanzania and 645 new patients in Mozambique, increases of 39% and 53%, respectively, when compared to detections by microscopy alone. These results provide further support for the applied use of scent-detecting rats. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://www.suaire.sua.ac.tz/handle/123456789/3088 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | 2016 Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior | en_US |
| dc.subject | Applied behavior analysis | en_US |
| dc.subject | Discrimination training | en_US |
| dc.subject | Tuberculosis | en_US |
| dc.subject | Pouched rats | en_US |
| dc.title | Active tuberculosis detection by pouched rats in 2014: more than 2,000 new patients found in two countries | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |
| dc.url | https://doi.org/10.1002/jaba.356 | en_US |