Course on M/XDR-TB in Cape Town in December
University of Cape Town
Sept. 6, 2016, 2:54 p.m.
Meeting the challenge of drug-resistant tuberculosis: A three-day course on MDR/XDR/XXDR-TB, 2-4 December 2016, Cape Town, South Africa
Course objectives:
- To describe the emergence and spread of resistance
- To present best practices for the management and control of drug-resistant TB
- To examine new approaches for detection and treatment
- Infection control
- To provide an update on current research
- To identify knowledge gaps and research needs
- To debate the way forward
Topics will include:
- New diagnostic tools
- Next generation sequencing
- The emergence of untreatable TB
- Clinical management of MDR/XDR/XXDR-TB
- New TB drugs and HIV
- Toxicity and adherence
- Patient needs
- Pathogenesis|
- Infection control
- Drug gradients in the lung
- Care for home discharged patients
- The search for new drugs
Online registration: http://xdrtbconference.co.za/registration.html
All applicants are welcome but financial assistance is not provided to attend this event.
For further information contact: Dr Liezel Smith Email: Liezel.Smith@uct.ac.za, and visit: http://xdrtbconference.co.za/
Organized by the Lung Infection and Immunity Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town & UCT Lung Institute.