Tuesday 28 June
09.00-10.30
New diagnostic strategies
Chairs: Elisa Tagliani, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan; Leen Rigouts, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp
GL14 Morten Ruhwald, FIND ⓘ
Update on the TB diagnostic pipeline, a response to the impact of the covid-19 pandemic
OR12 Viola Dreyer, Research Center Borstel
Rapid molecular diagnostics of resistance tuberculosis by targeted stool sequencing
OR13 Faridath Massou, Supranational Reference Laboratory for Tuberculosis, Cotonou
Multicentre evaluation of Xpert XDR and TrueNat 2nd line tests under field conditions
OR14 Leonardo de Araujo, Research Center Borstel
Collaborative implementation of targeted next-generation sequencing for the diagnosis of drug-resistant tuberculosis in Eswatini.
OR15 Julian Libiseller-Egger, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
A standard and framework to facilitate the comparison and benchmarking of methods for resistance prediction from genomic data