BD and FIND Achieve Milestone in Global Battle Against MDR-TB

17 June 2009

FIND and BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company; NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company today announced a significant price reduction in the cost of liquid culture testing. The agreement lowers the cost of BD MGIT™ reagents for BD's TB diagnostic technologies, which utilize liquid culture, a key “standard of care” TB testing protocol that provides results far faster than traditional, solid media culture. The liquid culture test, widely used in modern research settings, is particularly effective for stemming the spread of multi-drug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) and extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB) in developing countries.

19 May 2009

Training with malaria rapid diagnostic tests, Zambia

Following the recent publication of the WHO-FIND report on malaria RDT performance in the field, FIND interviews Dr. David Bell, the new Head of Malaria Diagnostics Programme, on the significance of this report.

18 May 2009

UNITAID has approved fresh funding for two ongoing projects aimed at curbing MDR-TB: the MDR-TB Scale-up Initiative and EXPAND-TB (GLI/FIND/GDF). The latter project will cover an additional 11 high-burden countries to the existing list, making a total of 27 countries that are to benefit from this initiative.

BD and FIND Achieve Milestone in Global Battle Against MDR-TB

17 June 2009

Rapid malaria diagnosis: where we stand and where we need to go

19 May 2009

UNITAID approves over US $61 million to GLI, FIND and GDF for MDR-TB diagnostics

18 May 2009

Light-emitting diode technologies for TB diagnosis: what is on the market?

Minion J, Sohn H, Pai M

Exploiting nanobodies in diagnosis and treatment of African trypanosomiasis

Dr. Joseph Ndung’u, Stefan Magez

T-cell interferon-gamma release assays for the rapid immunodiagnosis of tuberculosis: clinical utility in high-burden vs. low-burden settings

Dheda K, Van-Zyl Smit RN, Badri M, Pai M

Direct comparison of the GenoType MTBC and genomic deletion assays in terms of ability to distinguish between members of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in clinical isolates and in clinical specimens

Somoskovi A, Dormandy J, Rivenburg J, Pedrosa M, McBride M, Salfinger M

Early Depletion of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis-specific T Helper 1 Cell Responses after HIV-1 Infection

Geldmacher C, Schuetz A, Ngwenyama N, Casazza JP, Sanga E, Saathoff E, Boehme C, Geis S, Maboko L, Singh M, Minja F, Meyerhans A, Koup RA, & Hoelscher M

The diagnosis and misdiagnosis of tuberculosis

Davies PDO, Pai M

Rapid diagnosis of drug-resistant TB using line probe assays: from evidence to policy

Ling DI, Zwerling AA, Pai M

Costs and cost-effectiveness of tuberculosis cultures using solid and liquid media in a developing country

DH Mueller, L Mwenge, M Muyoyeta, MW Muvwimi, R Tembwe, R McNerney, P Godfrey-Faussett, HM Ayles

New Diagnostics for Latent and Active Tuberculosis: State of the Art and Future Prospects

Madhukar Pai, Richard O'Brien

Evidence-Based Tuberculosis Diagnosis

Pai M, Ramsay A, O'Brien R

Cost-effectiveness analysis of introduction of rapid, alternative methods to identify multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in middle-income countries

Acuna-Villaorduna C, et al.

GenoType MTBDR assays for the diagnosis of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: a meta-analysis

Ling D, Zwerling A, Pai M

African trypanosomiasis: Sensitive and rapid detection of the sub-genus Trypanozoon by loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) of parasite DNA

Njiru ZK, Mikosza ASJ, Matoru E, Enyaru JCK, Ouma JO, Kibora SN, Thompson RCA, Ndung'u JM

Systematic Review: T-Cell-based Assays for the Diagnosis of Latent Tuberculosis Infection: An Update

Pai M, Zwerling A, Menzies D

Novel tests for diagnosing tuberculous pleural effusion: what works and what does not?

Trajman, M. Pai, K. Dheda, R. van Zyl Smit, A. A. Zwerling, R. Joshi, S. Kalantri, P. Daley, and D. Menzies

Diagnosis of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis: current standards and challenges

Migliori GB, Matteelli A, Cirillo D, Pai M

Confronting the scientific obstacles to global control of tuberculosis

Young DB, Perkins MD, Duncan K, Barry CE

Coming Out of the Darkness

Salfinger M and Ashkin D

Rapid Molecular Screening for Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis in a High-Volume Public Health Laboratory in South Africa

Barnard M, Albert H, Coetzee G, O'Brien R, and Bosman ME

T-Cell Assays for Tuberculosis Infection: Deriving Cut-Offs for Conversions Using Reproducibility Data

Veerapathran A, Joshi R, Goswami K, Dogra S, Moodie EEM, Reddy MVR, Kalantri S, Schwartzman K, Behr MA, Menzies D, Pai M

Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification (LAMP) Method for Rapid Detection of Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense

Njiru ZK, Mikosza ASJ, Armstrong T, Enyaru JC, Ndung'u JM, Thompson ARC

TUBERCULOSIS

SLEEPING SICKNESS

MALARIA

LABORATORY PREPAREDNESS

24.06.09 - 26.06.09

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

17th Union Conference - Africa Region