Annual Congress Vienna 2012

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Fighting MDR- and XDR-TB in Europe: from programme results to research implementation

Symposium
Chairs: G.B. Migliori (Tradate, Italy), M. Dara (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Aims: The aims of this symposium are to:
- get an update on the control and elimination efforts coordinated by WHO in Europe, in collaboration with ERS;
- describe the main results achieved by the EU-funded project TB-PAN-NET;
- discuss the results of a large research project aimed at analysing a cohort of MDR-TB cases in Europe;
- summarise the research priorities as defined by WHO following the results of several meta-analyses launched to inform the new MDR-TB guidelines.

Control of MDR-/XDR-TB and elimination of TB in Europe: status update M. Dara (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Answering the research gaps on MDR-TB in Europe: the results of the FP7 - funded TB PAN-NET project D. Cirillo (Milan, Italy)