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Scientists hope new test could help contain meningitis outbreaks

Reuters: Science - Posted: August 24th, 2016, 2:11pm UTC

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A test has been developed that could help diagnose bacterial infections including meningitis in minutes, but it could take several years before a cheap testing device is available to developing countries, scientists said on Wednesday.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=IdzuLCJeAok:xf0fYUjwrMo:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=IdzuLCJeAok:xf0fYUjwrMo:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=IdzuLCJeAok:xf0fYUjwrMo:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=IdzuLCJeAok:xf0fYUjwrMo:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=IdzuLCJeAok:xf0fYUjwrMo:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/scienceNews/~4/IdzuLCJeAok" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

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