Building capacity for advances in tuberculosis research: Proceedings of the third RePORT International Meeting. Tuberculosis (Edinb)

Post Date: 
2018-12-15
Publication: 
Tuberculosis (Edinb)
Summary: 


Abstract

RePORT International is a global network of research sites in India, Brazil, Indonesia, South Africa, China, and the Philippines dedicated to collaborative tuberculosis research in the context of HIV. A standardized research protocol (the Common Protocol) guides the enrollment of participants with active pulmonary tuberculosis and contacts into observational cohorts. The establishment of harmonized clinical data and bio-repositories will allow cutting-edge, large-scale advances in the understanding of tuberculosis, including identification of novel biomarkers for progression to active tuberculosis and relapse after treatment. The RePORT International infrastructure aims to support research capacity development through enabling globally-diverse collaborations. To that end, representatives from the RePORT International network sites, funding agencies, and other stakeholders gathered together in Brazil in September 2017 to present updates on relevant research findings and discuss ideas for collaboration. Presenters emphasized research involving biomarker identification for incipient tuberculosis, host immunity and pharmacogenomics, co-morbidities such as HIV and type 2 diabetes mellitus, and tuberculosis transmission in vulnerable and high-risk populations. Currently, 962 active TB participants and 670 household contacts have contributed blood, sputum, urine and microbes to in-country biorepositories. Cross-consortium collaborations have begun sharing data and specimens to analyze molecular and cytokine predictive patterns.

Citation: 
Van der Heijden Y, Abdullah F, Andrade BB, Andrews JR, Christopher DJ, Croda J, Ewing H, Haas DW, Hatherill M, Horsburgh RC, Mave V, Nakaya HI, Rolla V, Srinivasan S, Sugiyono RI, Ugarte-Gil C, Hamilton C. Building capacity for advances in tuberculosis research: Proceedings of the third RePORT International Meeting. Tuberculosis (Edinb). 2018 Dec;113:153-162. doi: 10.1016/j.tube.2018.09.009. Epub 2018 Oct 1.
Collaborators: 
  • Vanderbilt Tuberculosis Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA; Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA.
  • Office of AIDS and TB Research, South African Medical Research Council, Pretoria, South Africa. 
  • Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Bahia, 40296-710, Brazil; Multinational Organization Network Sponsoring Translational and Epidemiological Research (MONSTER) Initiative, José Silveira Foundation, Salvador, 45204-040, Brazil; Wellcome Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Africa, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, 7925, South Africa; Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, 37232, USA; Universidade Salvador (UNIFACS), Laureate University, Salvador, Bahia, 41720-200, Brazil; Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública, Salvador, Bahia, 40290-000, Brazil
  • Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA. 
  • Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamilnadu, India. 
  • School of Medicine, Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, Brazil, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Campo Grande, Brazil. 
  • Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA. 
  • Departments of Medicine, Pharmacology, Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA; Department of Internal Medicine, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, TN, USA.
  • African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative, Institute of Infectious Disease & Molecular Medicine and Division of Immunology, Department of Pathology, University of Cape Town, South Africa. 
  • Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA. 
  • Byramjee-Jeejeebhoy Government Medical College-Johns Hopkins University Clinical Research Site, Pune, India.
  • Department of Clinical and Toxicological Analyses, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. 
  • Clinical Research Laboratory on Mycobacteria, National Institute of Infectious Diseases Evandro Chagas, Fiocruz, Brazil. 
  • Division of AIDS, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. 
  • INA-RESPOND, National Institute of Health Research and Development, Ministry of Health, Indonesia. 
  • Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru; School of Medicine, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru; TB Centre, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicina, London, UK; Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Maryland, USA. 
  • FHI 360 and Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.