The Suburban Cook County Tuberculosis Sanitarium District - Research Projects

The Suburban Cook County Tuberculosis Sanitarium District

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Text Box: Research Projects Research and education play an important role in advancing TB control methods.

Text Box: Ongoing involvement with the Tuberculosis Treatment Consortium (TBTC) clinical trial to shorten and simplify the treatment of latent TB infections in conjunction with the Edward Hines Junior Veterans Administration Hospital

Text Box: TB Epidemiologic Studies Consortium (TBESC) established in 2001by the CDC to conduct TB research and to strengthen the TB public health infrastructure. Current participation in Task Order #9 “Enhanced Surveillance to Identify Missed Opportunities for TB Prevention in the Foreign-born”

Text Box: TBTC study on efficacy of using moxifloxin for treatment of active cases

Text Box: Current research study with the Naval Institute for Dental and Biomedical Research “Specimen Acquisition for Salivary Diagnostics Development and Test Evaluation”