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Our guest speaker is Prof Bernard Fourie, Director (Interim) of the TB@UP Centre for TB Research, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria.The title of his talk is: Fifteen decades since the discovery of the TB bacillus: Why does the world's deadliest disease persist?Following Robert Kock's discovery of the TB bacillus in 1882, several major scientific discoveries in the early 1900's promised rapid control and elimination of the disease, but didn't even get close to meeting the global epidemiological targets for control. We will be looking at impediments and critical knowledge gaps preventing control of the disease, and will highlight research contributions from UP scientists in the development of new diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines for TB.
📍 JJ Theron Lecture Hall, Hillcrest, Pretoria, 0083, South Africa