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VTC Hosts LTBI R01 Meeting

The Vanderbilt Tuberculosis Center recently hosted a meeting of researchers involved in our LTBI R01 project “Immunogenetic predictors of active and incipient TB in HIV-negative and -positive…

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RePORT-Brazil investigators attend CROI 2024

Investigators from the RePORT-Brazil team attended the 2024 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Denver and made presentations on recent findings and articles. …

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RePORT-Brazil in the spotlight with CID article

A publication in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases is catching attention. The Xpert® MTB/RIF cycle threshold value predicts M. tuberculosis transmission to close contacts in a Brazilian…

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Tuberculosis Trials Consortium launches CRUSH-TB trial

CDC’s Tuberculosis Trials Consortium (TBTC) has recently launched the CRUSH-TB trial, which aims to identify new combinations of drugs to shorten treatment of active TB disease. Kelly Dooley, MD,…

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Research Fellow Dr. Felipe Ridolfi presents at conference, defends dissertation

Felipe Ridolfi, MD, MSc, PhD, is an Infectious Diseases Specialist and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the TB Center within the Division of Infectious Diseases in the Department of Medicine at…

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