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CRyPTIC aims to speed up the diagnosis and treatment of drug-resistant TB by looking at its genome.
Tuberculosis is a bacterial infection that ranks alongside HIV as the leading cause of death from infectious disease.
Ending the epidemic will mean tackling drug resistance which has risen dramatically in last 10 years.
Resistant bacteria can be defeated with the right cocktail of drugs.
TB genomes being sequenced around the world are fed into a machine learning system at University of Oxford that is being taught what drugs work for particular strains of TB.
