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…
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. …
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…
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,…
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…