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BEHAVIOR ANALYST
Volume 34, Issue 1, Pages 47-54Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/BF03392234
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behavior analysis; discrimination training; tuberculosis; pouched rats; translational research
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In recent years, operant discrimination training procedures have been used to teach giant African pouched rats to detect tuberculosis (TB) in human sputum samples. This article summarizes how the rats are trained and used operationally, as well as their performance in studies published to date. Available data suggest that pouched rats, which can evaluate many samples quickly, are sufficiently accurate in detecting TB to merit further investigation as a diagnostic tool.
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