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.kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.kt-row-column-wrap > .kadence-column1678_982fdc-62{align-self:center;}.kt-inner-column-height-full:not(.kt-has-1-columns) > .wp-block-kadence-column.kadence-column1678_982fdc-62{align-self:auto;}.kt-inner-column-height-full:not(.kt-has-1-columns) > .wp-block-kadence-column.kadence-column1678_982fdc-62 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}.kadence-column1678_982fdc-62 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column kadence-column1678_982fdc-62\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\">\n<p>Dr Ian Laurenson is one of a global collection of Drs to write a new paper developing &amp; guiding best practice public health standards for whole genome sequencing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TB is preventable and curable, yet\u00a0 an estimated 10.6 million people fell ill with TB in 2022 &amp; 1.3 million people died, the second-leading infectious killer after COVID-19 (WHO,2023).\u00a0 Multi-drug resistance is a global public health crisis &amp; managing this relies on disease genome sequencing to stratify. 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