NEWS

Tuberculosis and widespread public acceptance of face masks after COVID-19

Lancet Respir Med article: "Face masks in the post-COVID-19 era: a silver lining for the damaged tuberculosis public health response?"

Quick and safe vax method

Fantastic article from The Australian on our recent work developing a new method for rapid synthesis of safe vaccines.

New method to assist fast-tracking of vaccines for pre-clinical tests

Novel tuberculosis vaccine demonstrated strong immune response in mice - MEDIA RELEASE - Scientists in Australia have developed a method...

Roadmaps and picking a lane: Time for a clear national COVID-19 strategy

In a Letter to the Editor published today in the Medical Journal of Australia, the TB-CRE's modelling group reflects on Australia's...

Read our favourite Child TB articles

Our selection of interesting and relevant Child TB articles from the November 2020 Paediatric Respiratory Reviews tuberculosis...

The latest national TB notification report for Australia, (2015-2018)

Authors, including the TB-CRE investigators Justin Denholm and Chris Coulter, present and analyse TB and MDR-TB data from the National...

Ethics and Multidrug Resistant Latent TB

Should preventative therapy be given to patients with latent multidrug resistant TB? Authors Binh Nguyen, Greg Fox, Paul Mason, and...

PERISKOPE-TB developed in collaboration with TB-CRE investigators

Discovery and validation of personalised risk predictor for incident TB. [Written by Gupta et al. Nature Medicine]

Tuberculosis in Australia and Low-Incidence Countries

Two recent publications from TB-CRE investigators highlight the challenges and opportunities in TB control in migrants in low-incidence...

4.25 million for TB control in the Pacific

A team of TB-CRE researchers and affiliates led by Professor Ben Marais have been awarded $4.25 million in MRFF funding to pave a pathway...

Genetic Testing for Multi-drug Resistant Tuberculosis

GeneXpert, a rapid genetic test for the detection of tuberculosis infection has announced a new Xpert to simultaneously test for MDR/XDR...

The Ethical Landscape of TB control

In a special issue, the International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease recently released a series of articles addressing the...