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ATS PITB Assembly @ats-pitb.bsky.social · 12d

🔥Mark your calendars!🔥
@ats-pitb.bsky.social is hosting a🌲PINE🌲Webinar on Post-TB Lung Disease 🫁
Case-based discussion, diagnosis & treatment with 🌍 global experts!
📅 Tue Oct 28 10AM ET
🗒️Register Here: bit.ly/47X6auu
#TB @atscommunity.bsky.social @theunion.org @btsrespiratory.bsky.social

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Curry International Tuberculosis Center (CITC) @citc-tb.bsky.social · 12d

Please visit our website for ongoing conference program updates as we finalize our agenda over the next few months.We look forward to seeing to both new and familiar faces in support of the North American TB community."

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Curry International Tuberculosis Center (CITC) @citc-tb.bsky.social · 12d

"The 2026 End TB Conference of the Union North American Region is looking forward to holding its 30th annual conference at the Westin Philadelphia Hotel. We hope that you will join us in person to participate in our pre-conference postgraduate sessions and stay to attend our full conference.

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Curry International Tuberculosis Center (CITC) @citc-tb.bsky.social · 12d

Register Now! 2026 END TB Conference

web.cvent.com/event/ed3744...

📅 February 25-28, 2026
📍Philadelphia, PA

Register by Nov 30, 2025 to receive Early Bird pricing. If you are a Union member, you can also register for Union member pricing.

#EndTB #Tuberculosis #TBSky #IDSky @theunion.org

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Curry International Tuberculosis Center (CITC) @citc-tb.bsky.social · 15d

30th Annual Four Corners TB/HIV Conference: Agenda & Registration Available Now!

📅November 4-5, 2025
📍Durango, Colorado
💻 action.lung.org/site/TR?fr_i...

#Tuberculosis #HIV

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Curry International Tuberculosis Center (CITC) @citc-tb.bsky.social · 23d

This also provides information on the potential benefits and risks of TB preventive therapy.

Curry International Tuberculosis Center (CITC) @citc-tb.bsky.social · 23d

This decision aid provides information about the likelihood of developing TB disease, dying from TB, as well as post TB disability, in the next 20 years in a person with a positive Tuberculin skin test or a positive Interferon gamma release assay and a known risk factor.

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Curry International Tuberculosis Center (CITC) @citc-tb.bsky.social · 23d

Just released! Updates to the TSTin4D (www.tstin4d.com) and IGRAin4D (www.igrain4d.com)

#Tuberculosis #IGRA #TST #EndTB #LTBI #TBSky

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Curry International Tuberculosis Center (CITC) @citc-tb.bsky.social · 29d

2026 END TB Conference: Now Accepting Applications for Abstracts, Challenging Cases, and Travel Grants

bclung.ca/lung-health/...

📅 February 25-28, 2026
📍Philadelphia, PA

Submission Deadline: September 30, 2025

#EndTB #TBSky #IDSky #Tuberculosis @theunion.org

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Clinical Infectious Diseases @cidjournal.bsky.social · Aug 27

The Frequency and Incidence of QT Prolongation With Extended Use of Bedaquiline or Delamanid in a Large, Multi-Country Multidrug-Resistant/Rifampicin-Resistant Tuberculosis Cohort

#IDSky

The Frequency and Incidence of QT Prolongation With Extended Use of Bedaquiline or Delamanid in a Large, Multi-Country Multidrug-Resistant/Rifampicin-Resistant Tuberculosis Cohort

The introduction of Bedaquiline (Bdq) and Delamanid (Dlm) has revolutionized the treatment of multi-drug-resistant/rifampicin resistant tuberculosis (MDR/RR-TB) by shortening treatment and enabling use of all-oral regimens with fewer tolerability issues.

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UCSF Center for Tuberculosis @ucsf-ctb.bsky.social · Aug 25

Join us for Innovating Against #TB – Community Solutions to TB Challenges

📅 Thurs, Sept 11, 2025
🕐 1–2 PM PT | 4 PM ET
✅ Up to 1 CE hour

Hear from leaders & advocates on TB programs driving change via education, advocacy & services.

🔗 Register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

#Tuberculosis

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Innovating Against TB - Community Driven Solutions to TB Challenges. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Please join the Coalition for a TB Free California (CTFC) and the Association of Asian and Pacific Health Organizations (AAPCHO) for an engaging webinar highlighting three innovative TB programs that ...

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Clinical Infectious Diseases @cidjournal.bsky.social · Aug 23

The three-gene Xpert Host Response signature for pediatric tuberculosis screening: A prospective diagnostic accuracy study

✅ Just Accepted
✍️ ‪@djaganath.bsky.social‬
#IDSky

The three-gene Xpert Host Response signature for pediatric tuberculosis screening: A prospective diagnostic accuracy study

Blood-based gene signatures offer potential as a near point-of-care tuberculosis (TB) screening tool.

doi.org

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Devan Jaganath, MD MPH @djaganath.bsky.social · Aug 26

Enjoyed working with the CA TB controllers association to develop a simple aid to guide #TBprevention in children, please check it out here and share: ctca.org/wp-content/u...

@citc-tb.bsky.social #tuberculosis #LTBI

ctca.org

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Curry International Tuberculosis Center (CITC) @citc-tb.bsky.social · Aug 25

Thank you for sharing your feedback with @theunion.org. They do make an effort to move the annual conference to different global locations to be mindful of varying travel costs for stakeholders

Curry International Tuberculosis Center (CITC) @citc-tb.bsky.social · Aug 15

🚨 Early registration deadline is August 18th for The Union World Conference on Lung Health

📍 Copenhagen

📅 November 18–21

🔗 Register now: conf2025.theunion.org

#TBSky #LungHealth #UnionConf #EndTB #WCLH2025 @theunion.org

The Union World Conference on Lung Health 2025

conf2025.theunion.org

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TB Centre LSHTM @tb-lshtm.bsky.social · Aug 5

The Stephen Lawn TB-HIV Research Leadership Prize 2025 is currently open for nominations; closing date 10 September

Nominees for this prestigious award will be clinicians and/or researchers from any country who have completed post-graduate training (MPH, PhD, MD or post-doc)
tinyurl.com/4hnyu9dz

Stephen Lawn TB-HIV Research Leadership Prize 2025 | LSHTM

The Stephen Lawn Memorial Fund was established in 2016 through a global partnership between the TB Centre of the London, School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (UK), the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre in

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Curry International Tuberculosis Center (CITC) @citc-tb.bsky.social · Aug 15

Career Opportunity!

TB Physician in Alameda, California

www.jobapscloud.com/Alameda/sup/...

#TBSky #Tuberculosis

Job Announcement: Physician III - County of Alameda

www.jobapscloud.com

Curry International Tuberculosis Center (CITC) @citc-tb.bsky.social · Aug 14

Webinar Registration Now Open! A Practical Approach to De-isolation in Community Settings: Using the DRAFT Updates to California's Isolation Guidelines

💻 www.currytbcenter.ucsf.edu/trainings/pr...

📅 September 8, 2025

#TBSky #IDSky #Tuberculosis #Webinar

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Curry International Tuberculosis Center (CITC) @citc-tb.bsky.social · Aug 14

The recording of the New TB Treatment Guidelines: A Clinician’s Guide to the ATS/CDC/ERS/IDSA 2025 Update webinar from the @atscommunity.bsky.social is now available:

youtu.be/er1kr8YGWbA?...

#Tuberculosis #TBSky

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Curry International Tuberculosis Center (CITC) @citc-tb.bsky.social · Jul 31

Register Now! 30th Annual Four Corners TB/HIV Conference

📅November 4-5, 2025
📍Durango, Colorado
💻 action.lung.org/site/TR?fr_i...

#TBSky #IDSky #Tuberculosis #HIV

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ATS Blue Journal @atsblueeditor.bsky.social · Jun 24

Contribution of Posttuberculosis Sequelae to Life-Years Lost from Tuberculosis Disease in the United States, 2015–2019

@atscommunity.bsky.social‬

www.atsjournals.org/doi/full/10....

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Curry International Tuberculosis Center (CITC) @citc-tb.bsky.social · Jul 30

#TBSky #IDSky

UCSF Center for Tuberculosis @ucsf-ctb.bsky.social · Jul 28

Results from the endTB-Q trial (MSF, PIH, IRD, UCSF CTB): BDLC (bedaquiline, delamanid, linezolid, clofazimine) was not non-inferior to standard regimens for pre-XDR #TB. Longer/stronger treatments may be needed.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Bedaquiline, delamanid, linezolid, and clofazimine for rifampicin-resistant and fluoroquinolone-resistant tuberculosis (endTB-Q): an open-label, multicentre, stratified, non-inferiority, randomised, c...

Pre-extensively drug-resistant (pre-XDR) tuberculosis (ie, multidrug-resistant or rifampicin-resistant with additional resistance to any fluoroquinolo…

www.sciencedirect.com

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The Union @theunion.org · Jul 16

🎤 Key speaker announced: @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social will speak at #WCLH2025 - the world's leading #LungHealth event, 18-21 Nov in Copenhagen.
The bestselling author & global health advocate brings his momentum from the UN to #UnionConf2025
🔗Register now: tinyurl.com/2vytnjek
#TB #JohnGreen

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Curry International Tuberculosis Center (CITC) @citc-tb.bsky.social · Jul 16

Currently in Seattle, WA delivering 4 days of clinical tuberculosis training in collaboration with Public Health – Seattle & King County, Washington State Department of Health and University of Washington

www.currytbcenter.ucsf.edu/trainings

#Tuberculosis #GotCurry #TBSky

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TBFighters @tbfighters.org · Jul 10

Get ready for a #TBReaders Q&A! We'll be talking with #PhantomPlague author, Vidya Krishnan, a week from today on Fri July 18, 11am ET/8am PT. Head to the TBReaders discord to submit your questions: tbfighter.link/tbrea...

A picture of Vidya Krishnan and her book cover, Phantom Plague. "LIVE Q&A. FRIDAY JULY 18TH 11AM EDT. VIDYA KRISHNAN"

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