The incremental value of tuberculosis detecting African giant pouched rats over Smear microscopy and Xpert MTB/RIF for Tanzanian TB detection

• Tefera B. Agizew ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: tefera.agizew@apopo.org

  Affiliation Anti-Persoonsmijnen Ontmijnende Product Ontwikkeling (APOPO) Tuberculosis Department, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1848-7307

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• Joseph Soka,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Anti-Persoonsmijnen Ontmijnende Product Ontwikkeling (APOPO) Tuberculosis Department, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania

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• Stephen Mwimanzi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Anti-Persoonsmijnen Ontmijnende Product Ontwikkeling (APOPO) Tuberculosis Department, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania

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• Cynthia D. Fast,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Anti-Persoonsmijnen Ontmijnende Product Ontwikkeling (APOPO) Tuberculosis Department, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania, Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Belgium

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• Gilbert Mwesiga,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Anti-Persoonsmijnen Ontmijnende Product Ontwikkeling (APOPO) Tuberculosis Department, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania

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• Nashon Edward,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Anti-Persoonsmijnen Ontmijnende Product Ontwikkeling (APOPO) Tuberculosis Department, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania

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• Marygiven Stephen,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Anti-Persoonsmijnen Ontmijnende Product Ontwikkeling (APOPO) Tuberculosis Department, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania

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• Rehema Kondo,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Anti-Persoonsmijnen Ontmijnende Product Ontwikkeling (APOPO) Tuberculosis Department, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania

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• Christophe Cox,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Anti-Persoonsmijnen Ontmijnende Product Ontwikkeling (APOPO) Tuberculosis Department, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania, Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Belgium

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• Negussie Beyene

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Anti-Persoonsmijnen Ontmijnende Product Ontwikkeling (APOPO) Tuberculosis Department, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania, Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Belgium, APOPO Tuberculosis Research Project, Armauer Hansen Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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