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Science 3 March 2006:
Vol. 311. no. 5765, pp. 1245 - 1246
DOI: 10.1126/science.1125762
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PUBLIC HEALTH:
Enhanced: A National Tuberculosis Archive

Damian Gessler,1* Christopher Dye,2 Paul Farmer,3 Megan Murray,4 Thomas Navin,5 Randall Reves,6 Thomas Shinnick,5 Peter M. Small,7 Terry Yates,8 Gary Simpson9

Translation of tuberculosis research into benefits for citizens, clinical practice, and policy formation would be facilitated by development of an integrated resource.

1National Center for Genome Resources, Santa Fe, NM 87505, USA. 2Stop TB, World Health Organization, Geneva 27, Switzerland. 3Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115; 4Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115; Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115; 5Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC 20201; 6Denver Public Health, Denver Health and Hospital Authority, Denver, CO 80204; 7Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, WA 98103; Global Health Program, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA 98102; 8Department of Biology and the Museum of Southwestern Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131; 9Infectious Diseases, New Mexico Department of Health, Santa Fe, NM 87502, USA.

*Author for correspondence. E-mail: ddg{at}ncgr.org

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