Tuberculosis trials, already struggling, hit hard by US sequester

... shed roughly 5% of their budgets this year. That's bad news for research on global killers such as cancer and HIV/AIDS, but the prospects are perhaps even bleaker for fields that are already underfunded, such as research into tuberculosis. 3.1 ...

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