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Can we create ‘elite controllers’?

TB news from the World Lung Health Conference, Paris

Migrants with MDR-TB in southern Africa being dumped off at borders without referrals to care

Plasma concentrations of rifampicin may be too low in children using currently recommended doses

More delays in the fight against TB in South Africa

Long hospital stays for TB treatment can increase risk of reinfection with MDR or XDR-TB strains

High rate of MRSA recurrence in patients with HIV

Enhanced Trofile assay better at identifying HIV tropisms, only slight impact on virologic outcomes

South Africa’s lop-sided TB response: more attention to prevention of drug resistance required