A new grant will help support Vanderbilt’s RePORT Brazil, one of an international consortium’s six regional tuberculosis research programs.
The National Institutes of Health has awarded a five-year, $5 million grant to Vanderbilt University Medical Center for continued support of the Brazil Regional Prospective Observational Research in Tuberculosis network, or RePORT-Brazil.
Since July, investigators in the Vanderbilt Tuberculosis Center have been awarded research grants totaling $5 million.
Tuberculosis (TB) remains an important public health problem, particularly among people infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
Clinicians should be cautious about prescribing newer fluoroquinolone antibiotics to patients with TB risk factors; doing so may jeopardize the use of these agents against TB.
Vanderbilt University has established a tuberculosis center to expand and extend efforts to improve the treatment and prevention of this often fatal disease here and around the world.