Agenda

Session 1: Introduction & Current Field Diagnostics

Time	Session	Presenter	Goals
8.30	Registration, poster mounting, coffee
8.55	Welcome and introduction	Tido von Schon-Angerer MSF
9.00- 10.35 95mins	Session 1: TB field diagnostics	Chairs: Nathan Ford MSF Co-chair: TBD	What we do & can do for Diagnosis and DST (existing techniques or max 1 year horizon)
9.00-9.10 10mins	Optimization of sputum sample quality	Mishal Khan Pakistan/LSHTM	The basis for later steps - Is it done well enough, can/should we improve it, what can we do?
9.10-9.25 15mins	Microscopy: Something Old, Something New...	Kevin Fennelly, New Jersey Medical School,New Jersey, USA	Conventional technique & potential for increasing sensitivity with care/reading duration. Newer developments: auramine, bleach, FDA, filters. Adequacy of current policy emphasising smears over culture.
9.25-9.45 20mins	Decontamination & culture : best techniques for different settings	Carlton Evans Peru/IFHAD	Review traditional and newer techniques for diagnosis & DST: TLA, MODS, NRA, colorimetric etc Perhaps explore cost-effectiveness? Discussion of missing major validation studies Start laying foundation for discussion of gaps
9.45-9.55	Prize talk 1	Jaime Robeldo Columbia	Is there still a place for conventional methods in the rapid detection of rifampin and isoniazid resistance in M. tuberculosis? The case of thin layer agar direct method
9.55-10.05	Prize talk 2	Beatriz Herrera Peru	Optimisation Of Tb Field Testing: In-Transit Sputum Decontamination & Culture On Colorimetric Selective Media For Tb Diagnosis & Drug-Susceptibility Testing
10.05-10.35 30mins	Questions & Discussion	8-person panel of all of above	How can techniques be better implemented/optimised
10.35-11.00 25mins	Coffee and poster viewing