Date Time A mission to conquer tuberculosis and sleeping sickness in developing nations This article is an excerpt from the research magazine “Tackling Global Issues vol.3 Fighting the menace of zoonosis.” Click here to see the table of contents. Left: Chie Nakajima, DVM, Ph.D. Professor at the Research Center for Zoonosis Control (CZC) / Research areas: Tuberculosis and drug-resistant bacteria Right: Kyoko Hayashida, DVM, Ph.D. Assistant Professor at the Research Center for Zoonosis Control (CZC) / Research area: African trypanosomiasis Developing reasonably priced, easy-to-use diagnosis kits that can swiftly and accurately detect infectious diseases in developing countries has become the main mission of Chie Nakajima and Kyoko Hayashida, as they seek to alleviate some of the hardship endured by poverty-stricken people.