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Award-winning citizen science project tackling TB gets millionth classification

An award-winning Oxford-based international project to tackle antibiotic resistance has achieved its one millionth classification.

BashTheBug is an initiative based in the University of Oxford’s Modernising Medical Microbiology Group (Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine) at the John Radcliffe Hospital and supported by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC).

Find out more (NIHR OxBRC website)

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