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Tubercolosis course, Borstel 2010

 Educational Aims:

 To be able to:

  • Apply key epidemiological concepts to the clinical practice
  • Use new skills to diagnose tuberculosis (TB) infection and disease in adults and children
  • Use new skills to treat latent TB infected individuals and drug-susceptible TB cases (adults and children)
  • Understand the principles underlying treatment of multi-drug resistant TB cases
  • Draft a scientific article and look critically to published studies on TB and MDR-TB
  • Identify the priority areas for research and draft research protocols
  • Build up networks of clinicians and scientists in TB and MDR-TB care and research  
  • Identify and use the principles of career advice, planning and developing networks
 
Course presentation; discussion of learning objectives; revision of training materials and documents
C. Lange (Borstel, Germany), G. B. Migliori (Tradate, Italy),
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Clinical TB and MDR-TB epidemiology

G. B. Migliori (Tradate, Italy), S. Niemann (Borstel, Germany)
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Exercise on TB clinical epidemiology: what are the indicators suggesting?

G. B. Migliori (Tradate, Italy), G. Sotgiu (Sassari, Italy)
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Microbiological diagnosis of TB

J. Dominguez (Badalona, Spain), S. Ruesch-Gerdes (Borstel, Germany)
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Pro and Con session on bronchoscopy for TB diagnosis

C. Lange (Borstel, Germany), J-P. Zellweger (Fribourg, Switzerland)
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Image diagnosis of TB

C. Lange (Borstel, Germany)
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Exercises on CXR reading

G. Bothamley (London, United Kingdom), J-P. Zellweger (Fribourg, Switzerland)
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Immunodiagnosis of TB

D. Goletti (Roma, Italy)
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Value of TB immunodiagnostic tests in immunocompromised hosts

M. Ruhwald (Copenhagen, Denmark), M. Sester (Homburg, Germany)
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Treatment of LTBI including contacts of patients with MDR-TB

J-P. Zellweger (Fribourg, Switzerland)
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Pro and Con session on LTBI treatment

G. Bothamley (London, United Kingdom), B. Kampmann (London, United Kingdom)
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Principles for designing a TB and MDR-TB drug regime

C. Lange (Borstel, Germany), G. Sotgiu (Sassari, Italy)
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TB in children

B. Kampmann (London, United Kingdom)
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Constrains and common mistakes in TB/MDR-TB clinical trials

D. Goletti (Roma, Italy), G. Sotgiu (Sassari, Italy)
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How to write a research protocol

G. Guenther (Borstel, Germany), M. Sester (Homburg, Germany)
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Simple statistics for clinicians on respiratory research

G. Sotgiu (Sassari, Italy)
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How to write a manuscript

G. B. Migliori (Tradate, Italy)
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May 27-29, 2010 (Borstel, Germany)
 
Venue
Research Center Borstel
Parkallee 1-40
D-23845 Borstel
Germany

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