Undetected Drug resistance and Tolerance in lesions of recurrent TB

SPH Faculty: Principal Investigator

Faramarz Valafar

Professor[email protected] Laboratory for Pathogenesis of Clinical Drug Resistance and Persistence

Research Project Title

• Undetected Drug resistance and Tolerance in lesions of recurrent TB

Project Description

• Detection of mechanisms of resistance and persistence to first and second line anti-TB drugs directly in the disease context within patients’ pulmonary granuloma without culturing.

Location/Study Area

• Georgia, Ukraine, Armenia

Collaborators

• Karolinska Institute (Sweden), Republican Center for Tuberculosis and Long Disease in Tbilisi (Georgia), and more

External Links

• Tuberculosis Research Site