Held at the University of Birmingham Medical school

July 15th 2005

Session 1

mycoDB: an online resource for mycobacterial genomics

Roy Chaudhuri

Birmingham University

Intranasal IFN-gamma extends the period of passive protection by IgA anti-acr mAB in Mycobacterium tuberculosis aerosol infected BALB/c mice.

Rajko Reljic, Ann Williams, Simon Clark, Stephan Challacombe, Philip Marsh, & Juraj Ivanyi

Guys Hospital Campus, Kings College London

VNTR/MIRU typing of M. tuberculosis: a useful tool in TB control?

Krishna K Gopaul, Timothy J Brown, Andrea L Gibson, Malcolm D Yates & Francis A Drobniewski..

HPA, Mycobacterium Reference Unit, London

A prospective study of paradoxical reactions in tuberculosis patients.

RAM Breen, F Perrin, JP Dilworth, I Cropley, MA Johnson & MCI Lipman.

Depts of Thoracic & HIV Medicine, Royal Free Hospital, London

The α-crystallin-like acr gene is responsible for hypervirulence in an Mycobacterium tuberculosis ΔdosR mutant.

Yanmin Hu , Farahnaz Movahedzadeh , Neil G. Stoker & Anthony R. M. Coates.

Dept Medical Microbiology, St George’s University of London.

Session 2

Development of a Detection System to Identify TB-specific CD8 T-cell Responses Induced by Vaccination with BCG and Boosted with a Recombinant Viral Vector.

Kathryn T Whelan, Clare R Sander, Ansar A Pathan, Helen A Fletcher, Tamara K Berthoud, Adrian VS Hill & Helen McShane

Rapid identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTC) and non-tuberculosis (NTB) in a routine diagnostic laboratory.

Kerry J. Williams, Clare Ling, Claire Jenkins, Stephen H Gillespie & Timothy D. McHugh.

Centre for Medical Microbiology, Hampstead Campus, UCL

How does anti-TNF-α treatment in patients with autoimmune disease lead to increased susceptibility to tuberculosis?

Newton S.M., Mackie S., Martineau A.R., Wilkinson K.A, Fischer C., Dhutta S., Kampmann B., Levin M., Wilkinson R.J. & Pasvol G.

Wellcome Centre for Clinical Tropical Medicine, Imperial College

Detection of bovine tuberculosis in spill-over hosts.

Jahans KL, Worth D, Brown J & Monies RJ.

Veterinary Laboratories Agency, Addlestone, Surrey.