‘Global work on a local level’: DeKalb gets new tuberculosis clinic
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‘Global work on a local level’: DeKalb gets new tuberculosis clinic
DeKalb County has the highest rate of tuberculosis cases in Georgia. It’s opening a new clinic to help test for the disease and treat it.
The Central Metropolitan Health Service delivered a GeneXpert team to El Carmen Hospital in Maipú, a technology that will allow the processing of tuberculosis tests (TBC) through molecular biology. This innovation will serve to carry out a rapid bacteriological diagnosis with results in less than two hours. Until the start of this new technique, the samples were transferred from Maipú to be processed at San Borja Arriarán Clinical Hospital, whic…
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