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Centre Of Research Excellence in Tuberculosis Control Both sides of the border

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Management of tuberculosis in children and adolescents for health care workers

Management of tuberculosis in children and adolescents – programmatic considerations

Centenary Institute hosts TB-CRE symposium

The 51st Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Society for Immunology (ASI)

The 51st Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Society for Immunology (ASI) was held in Auckland, New Zealand in December 2023. Bringing together immunologists with the aim of advancing the science and education of Immunology in the Australasian region.

The PEARL Study
Towards TB & leprosy elimination in the Pacific

The PEARL study is a non-randomised whole-of-population implementation study to screen and treat all residents of South Tarawa aged 3 and above (or younger if recent TB/leprosy contacts) for TB and leprosy disease and infection.

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Events

Our latest Publications

Genomic characteristics of prospectively sequenced Mycobacterium tuberculosis from respiratory and non-respiratory sources

Diagnostic yield as an important metric for the evaluation of novel tuberculosis tests: rationale and guidance for future research

Effectiveness of preventive treatment among different age groups and Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection status: a systematic review and individual-participant data meta-analysis of contact tracing studies, in the Lancet Respiratory Medicine

Classification of early tuberculosis states to guide research for improved care and prevention: an international Delphi consensus exercises.

Developing best practice public health standards for whole genome sequencing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

Population-wide active case finding as a strategy to end TB.

Management of the infant born to a mother with tuberculosis: a systematic review and consensus practice guideline.

Closing the policy–practice gap for tuberculosis preventive treatment.

Zoonotic tuberculosis in the 21st century, commentary in the Lancet Infectious diseases, led by Marcel Behr and a PhD student at McGill.

Cost-effectiveness of community-based household tuberculosis contact management for children in Cameroon and Uganda: a modelling analysis of a cluster-randomised trial, in the Lancet Global Health

Effectiveness of a community-based approach for the investigation and management of children with household tuberculosis contact in Cameroon and Uganda: a cluster-randomised trial, in the Lancet Global Health

Xiaomei Zhang's Paper in The Lancet RH – Western Pacific
IIt is the first publication to explore 'genomic benchmarks' of TB control and monitoring of progress towards "zero TB transmission' using routine whole genome sequencing of all cultures MTB isolates

More TBCRE investigator and TB related Publications...

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