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Not many months ago, Prof Rita Oladele, a medical doctor, researcher and lecturer took a call from a colleague from one of the hospitals she's affiliated with, asking her to come and see a young man who had been on all kinds of treatments but just kept sinking deeper into ill health.
The man had been prescribed antibiotics, but they weren't working. As expected, the attending doctors, believing the man presented with tuberculosis symptoms, kept administering even more potent antibiotics.
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