ATS PI-TB Assembly

Coming to Orlando? Join us for the PI-TB Membership Meeting! 🗓️ Sunday, May 17 🕕 5 PM – 7 PM 📍 W307

Is post-etubation pneumonia a distinct entity? nature.com/articles/s4159…

Higher PSI is assocaited with culture positive bacterial pneumonia. frontiersin.org/journals/medic…

One week left for #ATS2026 Join us in Orlando for these exciting PITB sessions. Take a look at what’s planned and explore the full schedule here: ats2026.d365.events

A new study using a swab-based MiniDock test for the detection of Tuberculosis was published in the NEJM. #tuberculosis. nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Adithya Cattamanchi (@acattamanchi), MD, a pulmonologist at UC Irvine and member of @ATS_PITB, and his colleagues recently developed a faster, more accessible test for TB that does not require phlegm to work. Learn more about this new tool that could help patients and physicians around the world: npr.org/2026/04/29/nx-…

🌟Congratulations to Anukul T. Shenoy, PhD, MS, recipient of the ATS 2026 Early Career Achievement Award from the Assembly on Allergy, Immunology & Inflammation! Learn more here: site.thoracic.org/membership/awa… @ATS_AII @AnukulShenoy #ATS2026

Research from UTyler explores novel combinations for the treatment of M. abscesses. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/aa…

A review studying the gut microbiome and using the host-as-island analogy. The island biology of the host microbiome: Trends in Microbiology cell.com/trends/microbi…

🔥🔥🔥Hot off the press: Same-day versus rapid ART initiation in people with HIV and symptoms of tuberculosis (SaDAPT): a randomised, non-inferiority trial in Lesotho and Malawi - The Lancet HIV thelancet.com/journals/lanhi… #STOPTB @IDSA @TheUnion_TBLH @EuroRespSoc

Today on World TB Day we are extra proud of the work our @ATS_PITB does to contribute to helping to find new treatments and new paths to eradication for TB!

Oelofse et al. studied linezolid rechallenge among participants with rifampicin resistant TB in an observational cohort study #TB thelancet.com/journals/langl…

Recently, a publication by Moe et al. in Clinical Infectious Disease found non-inferiority between tongue swab vs. sputum based molecular testing for TB. #tuberculosis, #clinicalinfectiousdisease academic.oup.com/cid/advance-ar…

New publications studyin the impact of funding cuts to low and middle income countries and progress for TB treatment and eradication. #tuberculosis #pulmonary #medicine journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/a…

❄️🗞️ The PITB Highlights Winter Newsletter is here! Get an inside look at what our members are excited about at #ATS2026, catch up on the latest articles, and check out the return of the Vaccine and Immunization Advisory Group 🫁 @ATS_Assemblies @atscommunity

Diagnosis and Management of Community-acquired Pneumonia: An Official American Thoracic Society Clinical Practice Guideline @ATS_PITB @atscommunity 🔓 Open Access 🔗 tinyurl.com/yckaz5dn

Wang and colleagues used bronchoalveolar lavage to study the lung microbiome of severe and non-severe pneumonia in a multi-centre study from China. Here the authors discuss a depletion of oral commensals that is associated with more severe pneumonia. rdcu.be/e4JDT

Drs. Green, Devarajan, Swenson, Losier, and Gu discuss non-cystic #bronchiectasis emphasising the importance of mucus, from biochemical properties to clinical practice. A must view for those interested in #bronchiectasis research. #Chest #ATS chestnet.org/guidelines-and…

Associated secondary analysis here: Aetiology of sepsis in adults living with HIV in East Africa: a secondary analysis of an open-label, multicentre, randomised, controlled phase 3 trial - eClinicalMedicine thelancet.com/journals/eclin…

🔥🔥🔥 HOT OF THE PRESS!🔥🔥🔥 Immediate or high-dose antituberculosis therapy for HIV-related sepsis in Tanzania and Uganda (ATLAS): a phase 3, open-label, randomised, controlled, 2 × 2 factorial, superiority trial - The Lancet Infectious Diseases thelancet.com/journals/lanin…