Vanderbilt TB Center News

TBTC Launches CRUSH-TB trial

CDC’s Tuberculosis Trials Consortium (TBTC) has recently launched the CRUSH-TB trial, which aims to identify new combinations of drugs to shorten treatment of active TB disease. Kelly Dooley, MD, PhD, MPH, Director, Division of Infectious Diseases, is a Protocol Chair for this new study. Read more from CDC’s TB Notes newsletter:

Publication Announcement: “Four-Month Rifapentine Regimens with or without Moxifloxacin for Tuberculosis"

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Tuberculosis Trials Consortium (TBTC), together with collaborators from the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) AIDS Clinical Trial Group (ACTG), is pleased to announce the publication of “Four-Month Rifapentine Regimens with or without Moxifloxacin for Tuberculosis" in the New England Journal of Medicine.