We thank Dr Simone Peyrol and the CeCIL (Centre Commun d'Imagerie Laennec) for the use of electron microscopic facilities.
We thank Dr. Michael Sharkey and Dicky Yu for help with microscopic facilities, Stephanie Clutts for help with phylogenetic analysis.
We thank Prof. D. Corte Camerino and Dr. J.F. Desaphy for use of the animal facilities of the Pharmacobiology Dept. of the University of Bari and Prof. C. Tacchetti of the DIMES of the University of Genoa for access to microscopic facilities.
4 Without the use of microscopic facilities, there were no definite criteria for defining the true borders between the lesion and non-lesion areas under gross examination, even by expert dermatologists.
We thank Shu-Chen Shen from the Confocal Microscopic Core Facility at Academia Sinica for assistance in confocal microscopy images.
Preparation and staining of frozen sections of the tibias were done at our Institute's microscopic histology core facility.
At least for part of the districts, a sputum collection plan exists, whereby peripheral facilities are required to collect three sputa from a TB suspect and then organise transport to the district TB facility, where microscopic examination is conducted.
A TB officer, when visiting a private practitioner, is expected to remind practitioners about their role in finding TB suspects and about the importance of sending TB suspects to public health facilities for microscopic evaluation.
Experiments were performed at the Facility Core of Microscopic Imaging, Zhejiang University School of Medicine.
