Tuberculosis

Giovanni Battista Migliori is a specialist in respiratory medicine and medical statistics, and an auditor of quality systems. He has over 20 years of experience in design, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation of TB and TB/HIV control programmes globally. Giovanni Battista Migliori is Head of Clinical Epidemiology of the Respiratory Disease Service and Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for TB and Lung Disease at Maugeri Care and Research Institute (Tradate, Italy). Graham Bothamley has been a respiratory physician for 35 years and has looked after over 4000 patients with TB. He is currently a member of the TB Centre and Immunology and Infections Department at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (London, UK) and at the Blizard Institute (Queen Mary University of London, London, UK). Raquel Duarte is the Coordinator of the National Reference Centre for MDR-TB, the Director of the National Programme for TB and Associate Professor at the Medical School and at the Institute of Public Health of Porto University (Porto, Portugal). Adrian Rendon is a specialist in internal medicine and pulmonary and critical care medicine. He is Professor of Medicine at the School of Medicine and the University Hospital of Monterrey of the Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon (Mexico), where he has run a busy TB clinic since 1994.