{"id":378,"date":"2019-03-13T15:01:45","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T14:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.genoscreen.fr\/world-tb-day-eng\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T15:44:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T13:44:36","slug":"world-tb-day-eng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genoscreen.fr\/en\/news\/world-tb-day-eng\/","title":{"rendered":"World TB Day: GenoScreen participates to the International Tuberculosis Conference in Brussels!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 21<sup>st<\/sup>, Genoscreen will participate in the &#8220;International Conference on Tuberculosis&#8221; in Brussels.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The GenoScreen team, Agathe JOUET and Adel HOUHOU, will be present in the exhibition area.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Feel free to come and meet them to discover<a href=\"en\/genoscreen-expertise\/isolated-bacteria\/deeplex?highlight=WyJkZWVwbGV4Il0=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> the Deeplex\u00ae Myc-TB test<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The International Conference on Tuberculosis<\/strong> is organized by the Catholic University of Louvain (UCLouvain, Belgium) with the CHU Saint-Pierre (Brussels, Belgium). It brings together international tuberculosis experts to promote scientific exchange and discuss progress and relevant work directions in the fight against tuberculosis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/site-worldtbday.strikingly.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">For more information<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>World TB Day<\/strong><br \/>&#8220;The purpose of this day is to raise public awareness of the devastating health and socio-economic consequences of this disease. It also aims to intensify action to end the global tuberculosis epidemic.&nbsp;This date corresponds to the day in 1882 when Dr. Robert Koch announced that he had discovered the bacillus that causes tuberculosis, and thus made it possible to consider diagnosing and curing the disease.&#8221; <sup>1<\/sup><span style=\"background-color: inherit; color: inherit; font-family: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.8333px;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Key figures:<\/strong><br \/>According to WHO: &#8220;Tuberculosis remains the deadliest infectious disease in the world. Every day, nearly <strong>4500 people<\/strong> die of tuberculosis and nearly <strong>30,000<\/strong> contract this preventable and curable disease. It is estimated that tuberculosis control worldwide has saved <strong>54 million<\/strong> people since 2000 and reduced the death rate by<strong> 42%.&#8221;<sup>1<\/sup><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><sup>1&nbsp;<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/events\/detail\/2019\/03\/24\/default-calendar\/world-tb-day-2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World Tuberculosis Day 2019 &#8211; www.who.int<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 21st, Genoscreen will participate in the &#8220;International Conference on Tuberculosis&#8221; in Brussels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1120,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>World TB Day: GenoScreen participates to the International Tuberculosis Conference in Brussels! 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