Tuberculosis Detection by Giant African Pouched Rats

In recent years, operant discrimination training procedures have been used to teach giant African pouched rats to detect tuberculosis (TB) in human sputum samples. This article summarizes how the rats are trained and used operationally, as well as their performance in studies published to date. Avai...

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Main Authors: Poling, Alan, Weetjens, Bart, Cox, Christophe, Beyene, Negussie, Durgin, Amy, Mahoney, Amanda
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: The Association for Behavior Analysis, Inc. 2011
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Special Section: Behavior Analysis and Animal Scent Detection
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3089413/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22532730
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