Agenda
CLINICAL AND EPIDEMIOLOGY
Dr. Martín Castellanos Joya
Director. Mycobacteriosis Program
Secretaria de Salud, México
“Situación actual de la tuberculosis en México”
Dr. Luis Alejandro Pulido Espinosa
Chief. Mycobacteriosis Program in Ensenada Jurisdiction, Secretaria de Salud, México
“Tuberculosis Epidemiology in the border US-Mexico”
Dr. Rafael Laniado Laborín
Chief. Tuberculosis Clinic. General Hospital, Tijuana, Secretaria de Salud. Mexico
“Unstopable progression of drug resistant tuberculosis: from MDR to XDR to TDR”
Kathleen Moser, MD, MPH
Director. TB Control Program
San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency. USA
“Current diagnostic and genotyping tests used by US TB programs”.
Dr. Rafael Laniado Laborín
Chief. Tuberculosis Clinic. General Hospital, Tijuana, Secretaria de Salud. Mexico
“Diagnostic algorithms for tuberculosis in Latin America”
Dr. Roberto Zenteno Cuevas
Institute of Public Health, Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico.
“Type 2 diabetes mellitus and its influence in the development of drug resistant tuberculosis in Mexican population”
Richard S. Garfein, PhD, M.P.H
Professor. Division of Public Health Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, USA
“Adherence to tuberculosis treatment”
Dr. Shin, Sanghyuk
Professor. Department of Epidemiology, University of California Los Angeles, USA
“Epidemiology of mixed-‐strain Mycobacterium tuberculosis infections in a high HIV-prevalent country”
Dr. Musharaf Tarajia Asvat
Research. INDICASAT-‐AIP, Panamá
“Validation Process and introduction of a biomarker to clinical practice for the pleural TB in Central America: the Panamanian”
Dr. Octavio Villalobos
FronterasUnidas Pro Salud, A.C.
“Diabetes-‐Tuberculosis”
MOLECULAR EVOLUTION
Dr. Philip Supply
Biology Institute of Lille, France
“Whole genome sequencing-based approaches to the origin and spread of tuberculosis”
Dr. Iñaki Comas
FISABIO-Public Health
Valencia, Spain
“Next generation sequencing to understand the epidemiology and evolution of the tuberculosis bacillus”
M. Sc. Diana Angélica Aguilar-Ayala
Instituto Politécnico Nacional, México / Ghent University, Belgium
“Transcriptomic analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis through Next Generation Sequencing: Insight into the active and dormant stage and the influence of lipids in its environment”
Dr. Roberto Zenteno Cuevas
Institute of Public Health, Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico.
“Molecular mechanisms of drug resistance in Tuberculosis”
IMMUNOLOGY AND VACCINATION
Dr. Rogelio Hernández Pando
Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, México.
“The effect of BCG vaccination on the virulence of M. tuberculosis”
Dr. Alejandro Escobar Gutiérrez
Instituto de Diagnóstico y Referencia Epidemiológicos. México
“Immunology of Tuberculosis”
Dr. Oscar Rojas-Espinosa
National School of Biological Sciences, Instituto Politécnico Nacional
“Neutrophils, NETs and Mycobacterium tuberculosis”
BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS
Dra. Suelee Robbe
APHIS-USDA, USA
“Mycobacterium bovis Whole Genome Sequencing SNP Analysis”
Dr. Gilberto López Valencia
Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Mexico
“BCG vaccine for bovine tuberculosis prevention”
Dr. Alejandro Perera
APHIS-USDA México
“Bovine tuberculosis, human interface”
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