Happy to be attending the #Wolfheze reboot at @whoeurope.bsky.social An excellent forum for regional expertise sharing in #tuberculosis

🚨Fully-funded PhD opportunity!🚨 Interested in researching how to improve risk prediction for people with #tuberculosis #TB and #multimorbidity? Joint project between @uofgshw.bsky.social 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 and @ki.se 🇸🇪, funded by UK MRC. Details here⬇️ www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...

Note to self, "hedgehogs are no better than chimpanzees" #tetlock #prediction #bayes

Understanding patterns of #TB exposure and transmission is needed for targeted prevention strategies. In our latest pre-print, @petedodd24.bsky.social and I estimated the proportion of TB exposure to and transmission from sex and age groups for 177 countries. bit.ly/4nbV492

A global analysis of patterns of tuberculosis exposure and transmission

Tuberculosis (TB) is a major public health concern and the leading infectious cause of mortality globally. The disease exhibits strong prevalence patterns by age and sex, but the implications of these...

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Well done @emilyakendall.bsky.social and team! Incredible work to generate this important data on people with minimal sputum #TB detection. Adds another piece to our understanding of those with very low sputum #bacillary load. Definitely one to dig into beyond the abstract! #TBSky #IDSky

The Lancet Infectious Diseases@thelancetinfdis.bsky.social · 10mo ago

New Research Long-term risk of tuberculosis among individuals with Xpert Ultra trace screening results in Uganda: a longitudinal follow-up study www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Making research more #accessible is so important. I love what @climeresearchgroup.bsky.social has been doing with their publications - a short video to take away the key messages. Keep it up! One of my group's @ki.se has followed your lead! Give them a follow and take a look at their videos.

CLIME Research Group@climeresearchgroup.bsky.social · last yr.

🧪 Contaminated TB cultures are often discarded — but they can still hold answers. This study shows Xpert MTB/XDR testing could recover drug resistance data from them, detecting more cases, faster. A simple change with powerful impact! Full article @asm.org : journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....

The recognition of asymptomatic #TB is both fascinating and worrying. The recognition of symptoms is the gate-keeper to so much of our public health response. Seems like another important argument for broader community access to diagnostic services!

Peter MacPherson@petermacp.bsky.social · 12mo ago

About half of people with #TB are asymptomatic (aTB). Calls have been made to stratify treatment and estimate incidence based on aTB case definitions In this preprint we raise concerns that symptoms are an inadequate & inconsistent classifier of TB state, being highly influenced by context ⬇️link

Congratulations to my colleague Johan Lundin on promoting the use of #machinelearning and #AI to expand #access to life saving diagnostics. We must continue to push hard for safe and equitable implementation! #UHC

Karolinska Institutet@ki.se · 10mo ago

AI can increase access to #CervicalCancer screening in low-resource settings, but the technology requires investments throughout the entire healthcare chain to be effective. New study from KI, Uppsala University and @helsinki.fi published in @bmj.com today 🧪 #GlobalHealth news.ki.se/ai-can-impro...

We are inviting applications for postdoctoral fellows in immunology of TB at the South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative, University of Cape Town. For more information see the attached ad: idm.uct.ac.za/media/739223

Great to see this published after the hard work in Stockholm and Cape Town! How should we think about aerosol detection of #tuberculosis? Is it a diagnostic test? Could it help us prioritize prevention activities? Much more work to do, but exciting nonetheless @climeresearchgroup.bsky.social @ki.se

Open Forum Infectious Diseases@ofidjournal.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Detection of aerosolized Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA from adults being investigated for pulmonary tuberculosis using an electrostatic sampler in a South African primary care setting ✅ Just Accepted #IDSky 🔗 https://bit.ly/474fRq0