Institutional strengthening of the Mycobacteria Reference Laboratory (LRM, Bénin) for quality services and better quality of health care for Mycobacteria and other clinical bacteria, at National and Regional Level. Institute of Tropical Medicine
The ITM has been working with the Beninese partner Laboratoire de Référence des Mycobactéries (LRM) since 1995, this is the national mycobacteriological reference laboratory where tuberculosis diagnoses (including resistance of it), Buruli ulcer, and leprosy. The team in LRM supervises microscopy for tuberculosis diagnostics in 84 hospitals in Benin, including in regional hospitals where other Belgian actors are active. This microscopy network ...