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Apply for a TB-NEAT Post-doctoral Fellowship
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Workshop on drug resistant TB
Delegates can register online for the workshop here
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Keertan Dheda serves on American Thoracic Society
MTPI committee 2009-2010

Left to right. BACK ROW:  Ed Chan, Stephen Gordon, Keertan Dheda, Charles Feldman, Mark Metersky; FRONT ROW: Sam Moskowitz, Adithya Cattamanchi, Carol Hamilton, Marcos Restropo, Scott Evans, Adrian Rendon

Multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis:
a threat to global control of tuberculosis.
The Lancet – May 2010 [...read more] or [...download article]

Early treatment outcomes and HIV status of patients with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in South Africa:
a retrospective cohort study. The Lancet – May 2010
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Infection control 'urgently needed' to curb spread of XDR-TB among health care workers [...read more]

XDR tuberculosis in South Africa: old questions,
new answers [...read more]

TB hits health workers
Mail & Gaurdian 14-20 May 2010 [...download article]

World TB Day 2010

The Lung Infection and Immunity Unit of the University of Cape Town would like to join with the rest of the world in commemorating World TB day today, Wednesday the 24th of March, 2010. The Unit would like to take the opportunity to re-affirm its commitment to improving heath care through research, continued development of diagnostic techniques and dedicated patient care. We are also pleased to announce the publication 'Clinical utility of a commercial LAM-ELISA assay for TB diagnosis in HIV-infected patients using urine and sputum samples', published in PLoS ONE today. [...download article]

Bulletin of UK TB Research [...download article]

World TB Day 2010: Eradicating tuberculosis in
sub-Saharan Africa needs effective and committed north-south
partnerships [...download article]

World TB Day 2010 – New innovations are required for
enhancing the global fight against Tuberculosis: the
‘Captain of all these men of death’ [...download article]

Lung Infection and Immunity Unit in the news!

Kiss of Life for lung-infection research [...download article]

Argus – 23 October 2009
Doctor raises questions over TB skin testing [...download article]

Monday Paper – 26 October - 8 November 2009

1. Success in triplicate for TB researchers [...download article]
2. Researcher puts TB screening to the test [...download article