"Update in tuberculosis: advances in the management of drug resistant and multi-drug resistent tuberculosis cases"

Chairs: G. B. Migliori (Tradate, Italy), P. D. O. Davies (Liverpool, United Kingdom)



The main target of this course is to update participants on the current advances in knowledge regarding epidemiology and management of drug resistant and multi-drug resistent tuberculosis (TB) cases. At the end of this course participants will be able to: understand the public health consequences of mismanagement of TB cases; interpret the key role of clinicians in TB control; apply international standards of diagnosis and care of TB; discuss the open questions for research in this field.

   

Diagnosing and managing drug-resistant cases  P. D. O. Davies (Liverpool, United Kingdom)
Resistance pattern for tuberculosis in Europe  D. Cirillo (Milano, Italy)
Case presentation  G. B. Migliori (Tradate, Italy)
Common causes of treatment mismanagement  J-P. Zellweger (Fribourg, Switzerland)