Wayne State University, with the support of TB Europe Coalition, is conducting a research on TB and mental health in Europe and Central Asia. People who have had TB and/or have experience treating or supporting people with TB are invited to take part in an online survey available in English, French, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian.

DETROIT, March 13, 2023 – A team of faculty from Wayne State University has discovered new technology that will quickly and easily detect active Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) infection antibodies. Their work, “Discovery of Novel Transketolase Epitopes and the Development of IgG-Based Tuberculosis Serodiagnostics,” was published in a recent edition of Microbiology Spectrum, a journal published by the American Society for Microbiology. The team is led by Lobelia Samavati, M.D., professor in the Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics in the School of Medicine. Samavati was joined by Jaya Talreja, Ph.D, and Changya Peng, research scientists in Wayne State’s Department of Internal Medicine.