“Quantification of tuberculosis exposure in a high-burdened setting” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

AIGHD’s Sabine Hermans & Frank Cobelens – also part of ‪@amsterdamumc.bsky.social‬‬, Amsterdam Institute for Immunology & Infectious Diseases, Amsterdam Public Health – helped design the research + edited the paper together with Robin Wood (University of Cape Town/Desmond Tutu Health Foundation)

The result has just been published in the journal Scientific Reports.

“This work suggests that strategies to reduce exposure alone are an inefficient approach to preventing TB cases,” explained the study’s lead author, Benjamin Patterson.

🔹 (Rapid) genomic surveillance of measles virus in Asella, Ethiopia using the Oxford nanopore technology (Anna Rommerskirchen)
🔹Comprehensive phylogenomic analysis of 'Mycobacterium tuberculosis' in Ethiopia (Betselot Zerihun Ayano)

Three posters of PhD studies affiliated with EpiGen were on display at the #EDCTPForum:
🔹The hidden challenge: hrp2/3 gene deletions and malaria diagnosis in Southern Ethiopia (Bacha Mekonen)

#EpiGenEthiopia Lead Investigator Dr Tobias Rinke de Wit: “Setting up networks like this is difficult because there are different countries, angles, priorities... Still, it is the basis for everything: We have to approach the future in Africa on a continental level and not on a country level.”