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Alaska has the highest incidence of TB in the US, with 8% mortality while undergoing treatment. Given that 1/4 of cases lack sputum culture for DR testing, FreezeTB aimed to develop tools tailored to these challenges.
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Application of FreezeTB, a targeted nanopore sequencing assay, for identification of drug resistance and lineages among pulmonary tuberculosis cases in Alaska | Microbiology Spectrum
Globally, tuberculosis is the leading infectious cause of mortality with 10.8 million new cases and 1.25 million deaths occurring in 2024. Targeted next-generation sequencing (tNGS) is a rapid,…
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November 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
🧬 #freezeTB 🦠 Rapid nanopore sequencing of drug-resistant tuberculosis #TB #AMR at the University of Alaska @nanoporetech.com
December 17, 2024 at 7:57 PM