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Dr Dilip Banerjee made the eradication of tuberculosis his lifelong professional focus KamleshBanerjee Thu 8 Apr 2021 13.16 EDT Last modified on Thu 8 Apr 2021 13.17 EDT My husband, Dr Dilip Banerjee, who has died aged 84 from an aortic dissection, was a doctor and academic who spent his entire 34-year career in the UK at St George’s hospital in London. Both his brother and mother died from tuberculosis when he was six years old, and the eradication of this infectious disease became his lifelong professional focus. As part of his scientific research on tuberculosis, he introduced genetic fingerprinting to map the epidemiology of tuberculosis in London in the 1990s, significantly improving “tracking and tracing” of the disease. The findings of his research dispelled the myth that the increased spread of tuberculosis in London was because of immigration, instead determining that imported tuberculosis was not spreading rampantly in the community. Long before our now pandemic-

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