Advances in clinical trial design for development of new TB treatments: A call for innovation

Christian Lienhardt; Payam Nahid

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1002769

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Advances in clinical trial design for development of new TB treatments: A call for innovation

Christian Lienhardt ,

* E-mail: christian.lienhardt@ird.fr

Affiliation Unité Mixte Internationale TransVIHMI (UMI 233 IRD–U1175 INSERM, Université de Montpellier), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Montpellier, France

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0233-893X

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Payam Nahid

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2811-1311

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Advances in clinical trial design for development of new TB treatments: A call for innovation

Christian Lienhardt,
Payam Nahid

Published: March 22, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002769

About the Authors

Christian Lienhardt

* E-mail: christian.lienhardt@ird.fr

Affiliation Unité Mixte Internationale TransVIHMI (UMI 233 IRD–U1175 INSERM, Université de Montpellier), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Montpellier, France

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0233-893X

Payam Nahid

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2811-1311

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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