Can cough-based AI improve the care of respiratory infections in children? I chatted with Contemporary Pediatrics about its potential and future directions: contemporarypediatrics.com/view/how-ai-ca… UCSF Pediatric Infectious Disease UCSF Pediatrics

Peds ID folks, come work with us! PIDS

WHO publishes information notes on the use of bedaquiline and delamanid in children and adolescents with drug-resistant tuberculosis createsend.com/t/d-35C15BD65C…

Breaking news! Global Fund, Stop TB Partnership and USAID Announce New Collaboration with Danaher to Reduce Price and Increase Access to Cepheid’s TB Test Five million additional tests can be procured with this lower price. For more information: theglobalfund.org/en/news/2023/2…

"Each day, almost 600 children and young adolescents lose their lives to this preventable disease." Thanks Kerri Viney Sabine Verkuijl and the Global TB Programme for highlighting the ongoing needs to support children and adolescents with TB

Swab collection is highly feasible for tb testing in children, data presented from the UCSF COMBO study The Union Conference UCSF Center for TB Devan Jaganath MD MPH #childtb

Kudos to our team members Rob Castro & Swati Sudarsan on their excellent presentations on the diagnosis of #TB in children and CAD for #Tuberculosis, respectively, at the #UnionConf2023 this morning.

“I like infectious disease” ⬇️ “Oh shit student loans” ⬇️ “I like cardiology” ⬇️ Super bacteria destroys human race. Everybody dies with clean coronary arteries.

WHO is issuing a public call for data to inform guidelines development process on #TB molecular assays (NAATs) to evaluate parallel use of NAAT technologies with/without LF-LAM for the diagnosis of TB in pediatric patients and PLHIV …obaltuberculosisprogramme.cmail20.com/t/d-e-vhujdky-…

The CODA #TB dream challenge provides open access cough and clinical data to develop AI algorithms to detect TB; see how your models are performing with our new validation platform: synapse.org/#!Synapse:syn3…

Higher levofloxacin dosing may be needed for RR/MDR-TB in children - new work published in Clinical Infectious Diseases by Rada Savic at UC San Francisco UCSF Center for TB UCSF Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences #childtb academic.oup.com/cid/advance-ar…

Fighting global #tuberculosis burden is crucial, and making once-weekly isoniazid & rifapentine (3HP) more accessible is key. With tailored delivery strategies & informed choices, we aim for high acceptance & completion rates. #PLOSMedicine dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…

John Green on a new private-public partnership: "I really hope that this project can be a beacon and a blueprint for how we radically reduce the burden of tuberculosis globally." trib.al/gu944wX

🔬 New Study: Improving TB detection in high-burden countries with accessible, accurate tests. CAD4TB outperforms other tests, meeting WHO targets. Combining tests boosts accuracy. Read more: medrxiv.org/content/10.110… #TB

Join our fight against childhood tuberculosis! We are hiring a data analyst (sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search…) and if you are interested in postdoctoral opportunities, please message me directly

We need to include children and adolescents earlier in the development and evaluation of novel TB diagnostics. Our new consensus statement in The Lancet Infectious Diseases guides this process: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Very sad to hear about the passing of Dr. Salata; he was my mentor for the Fogarty at NIH program and inspired me to pursue a career in global health. He was an amazing mentor to many and will be missed news.uhhospitals.org/news-releases/…

Join our Webinar: AI’s Role in Transforming Pediatric TB Diagnosis We’re excited to invite you to a webinar on “Challenges in Pediatric Tuberculosis Diagnosis: The Role of AI in Revolutionizing Screening.” This session will delve into how #AI is shaping the future of paediatric

Together Against TB, a 501(c)3 charity founded by TB researchers to support people impacted by TB in the Bay Area is issuing an urgent fundraising appeal to prevent a baby with TB meningitis from being evicted. Read more and donate here: paypal.com/donate?campaig…

Enjoyed sharing my thoughts with India Health Fund on how we can advance new TB diagnostics for children. #childtb UCSF Global Health UCSF Pediatrics UCSF Center for TB