Highlights von der 2025 Union World Conference on Lung Health in Kopenhagen
Die diesjährige Union-Konferenz beinhaltete eine Keynote des preisgekrönten, international erfolgreichen Autors, YouTubers und bekannten Stimme für Globale Gesundheit, John Green („Everything is Tuberculosis“) sowie einen besonderen Gast: Henry Reider – ein TB-Überlebender und die Inspiration für John Greens Buch.
Zahlreiche Forschende und Kooperationspartner des Instituts für Infektions- und Tropenmedizin am LMU Klinikum trugen zum Kongress bei und stellten ihre Expertise zur Tuberkulose- und Lungengesundheit u.a. in den folgenden Sitzungen vor:
- Track B: Lung Health (pneumonia, asthma, COPD, other respiratory diseases in adults and children); Late Breaker Oral Abstract Sessions
Chair: Katharina Kranzer (THRU-ZIM/LSHTM/LMU Hospital)
LB01 – Tuesday Nov 18 – 11:30 - 13:00
Weitere Informationen - Track M3: Health and well-being post TB, Life after TB
Chair: Celso Khosa (Maputo, Mozambique)
OA02 – Tuesday Nov 18 – 11:30 - 13:00
Weitere Informationen - Diagnostic and predictive accuracy of a 3-gene M. tuberculosis Host Response Cartridge in household contacts – Updated results from the multi-centre prospective ERASE-TB study
Presenter: Anna-Lisa Behnke
LB01-1304-18 – Tuesday Nov 18 – 11:56 – 12:02
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- Spontaneous control of early Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in children exposed to M. tuberculosis without standard treatment
Poster Presenter: Alia Razid
TBS-EP17 – Tuesday Nov 18 – 13:20 – 13:25
Weitere Informationen - Designing a digital clinical decision support system to strengthen implementation of treatment decision algorithms for childhood TB in Zambia and Mozambique
Poster Presenter: Celso Khosa (Maputo, Mozambique)
EP01-708-18 – Tuesday Nov 18 – 13:55 – 14:00
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- Clinical predictors for radiological severe pulmonary TB in children: An individual participant data-analysis
Presenter: Akshita Gupta
SOA01-506-18 – Tuesday Nov 18 – 15:45 – 15:52
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- Improving collaboration through access: A scoping review of TB clinical trial repositories;
Non-sputum biomarkers for on-treatment prediction of TB disease recurrence
Presenter: Mairi McClean
TBS-EP59/TBS-EP74 – Wednesday Nov 19 – 09:25 – 09:30/09:50 – 09:55
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- Active case finding strategies
Speaker: Mikaela Coleman
SPS02 A – Wednesday Nov 19 – 09:40 – 09:50
Weitere Informationen Enhancing TB diagnosis and case finding among children
Chair: Norbert Heinrich
EP14 – Wednesday Nov 19 – 12:05 – 13:05
Weitere InformationenFrontiers in immunology and biomarkers - infection, disease risk and treatment monitoring
Chair: Kathrin Held
EP24 – Wednesday Nov 19 - 13:10 – 14:10
Weitere InformationenAccelerating prediction of treatment response in drug/regimen evaluation: The key role of biomarkers
Chair: Norbert Heinrich
TBS03 – Wednesday Nov 19 – 14:10 - 15:10
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- An AI chest X-ray severity score is prognostic of time to culture conversion in a pulmonary TB clinical trial
Presenter: Erlandy Basson
LB02-1319-19 – Wednesday Nov 19 – 16:46 – 16:54
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- The impact of prior TB on risk of subsequent TB in people living in households affected by TB: Results from the ERASE-TB study
Presenter: Anna-Lisa Behnke
OA14-237-19 – Wednesday Nov 19 – 16:54 – 17:02
Weitere Informationen - A novel transcriptome-informed quantitative real-time PCR-based signature for monitoring tuberculosis treatment success
Poster Presenter: Kathrin Held
TBS-EP155 MAMS_6 – Thursday Nov 20 – 12:10 - 12:15
Weitere Informationen - Does TB research presented at The Union World Conference on Lung Health engage with the conditions of poverty, inequality and undernutrition experienced by TB-affected communities? An abstract review
Presenter: Mikaela Coleman
OA21-297-20 – Thursday Nov 20 – 14:15 - 14:22
Weitere Informationen - Making it work for us: Community-led programme design
Chair: Kathrin Held
SOA12 – Thursday Nov 20 – 15:55 – 17:25
Weitere Informationen - Track H4: Digital health technologies, Bridging gaps in TB care: AI solutions for high-risk populations
Chair: Leyla Larsson (London, United Kingdom)
Chair: Celso Khosa (Maputo, Mozambique)
SOA11 – Thursday Nov 20 – 14:10 - 15:40
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- Biomarker combinations of TB-MBLA with CFU and TTP give greater biological insight in EBA studies
Presenter: Mairi McClean
TBS-EP221 – Thursday Nov 20 – 14:25 – 14:30
Weitere Informationen - AI in monitoring treatment response in TB clinical trials
Presenter: Mairi McClean
MTE-10 – Friday Nov 21 – 08:00 - 09:00
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- Advancing TB care: Innovations in drugs, vaccines, diagnostics and treatment
Chair: Michael Hoelscher
OA26 – Friday Nov 21 – 09:15 – 10:45
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Including the presentations:
OA26-353-21 Refining research outcomes: Lessons from the setup of an endpoint review committee in TB observational diagnostic studies
Presenter: Leyla Larsson, 10:00 – 10:07
OA26-357-21 UNITE4TB – DECISION: A BTZ-043 phase IIB dose-ranging trial in combination with bedaquiline and delamanid
Presenter: Michael Hoelscher, 10:28 – 10:35 - Session Smarter, shorter, stronger: Advancing paediatric TB care through science, Smarter decision, earlier diagnosis: The evolving landscape of pediatric TB
Speaker: Celso Khosa (Maputo, Mozambique)
SPS06 – Friday Nov 21 – 09:15 – 10:45
Weitere Informationen - Factors affecting the performance of chest X-ray artificial intelligence-based computer-aided diagnosis for TB in a primary health centre
Presenter: Celso Khosa (Maputo, Mozambique)
OA33-423-21 – Friday Nov 21 – 14:47 - 14:55
Weitere Informationen - The Union/CDC late-breaker - TB Detection and Transmission: New Diagnostic Approaches and Study Insights
Chair: Celso Khosa (Maputo, Mozambique)
LB03 – Friday Nov 21 – 15:55 - 17:25
Weitere Informationen - Severity of TB disease in people diagnosed through systematic screening
Presenter: Cong Minh Nguyen
OA34-429-21 – Friday Nov 21 – 16:08 - 16:16
Weitere Informationen - Missed opportunities for HIV prevention, diagnosis and treatment in TB-affected households: Evidence from a household contact cohort study
Presenter: Edson Tawanda Marambire (Harare, Zimbabwe)
OA34-432-21 – Friday Nov 21 – 16:32 - 16:40
Weitere Informationen - Evaluating the diagnostic accuracy of the TAM-TB assay for paediatric TB in the RaPaed-TB study
Presenter: Alia Razid
OA35-443-21– Friday Nov 21 – 16:54 - 17:03
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Am Rande der Konferenz präsentierten Forschende des Tropeninstituts ihre Arbeiten bei verschiedenen Meetings, darunter u.a. ein Forschungstreffen der Weltgesundheitsorganisation (WHO) zu Treatment Decision Algorithms (TDAs) für Lungentuberkulose bei Kindern (Forschungsgruppe zu neuen Diagnostika für Tuberkulose bei Kindern) sowie das Jahrestreffen des TB Sequel-Projekts.