Tuberculosis (TB) is an airborne infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. It usually affects the lungs causing coughing,fever and weight loss. Although the disease has long been both preventable and curable, someone still dies from tuberculosis somewhere in the world every twenty seconds. Treatment still requires six months or more of combinations of antibiotics to ensure complete cure and more effective drugs are urgently needed to shorten treatment.

 

The goal of the PreDiCT-TB consortium is to find the most rapid and reliable ways of identifying the most potent combinations of new drugs and hasten their arrival in the clinic.

 

The workshop is open to all PrediCT-TB participants.

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, May, 2015.

Contact:

 

Should you have any enquiry, contact Juan Jose Vaquero (jjvaquer@ing.uc3m.es)