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b'With a growing threat from tuberculosis around the world\\u2014made worse by the spread of HIV/AIDS\\u2014there is an urgent need for new diagnostic tests for TB which are more appropriate for use in communities and small clinics rather than big hospitals. Peter Goodwin interviewed Ruth McNerney of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, organiser of a symposium on \\u201cPoint-of-Care\\u201d tests for TB, held in the city of Porto, Portugal during the annual meeting of the European Society of Mycobacteriology (July 5-8, 2009).'