Valeria Olivo
Journal Development Editor at BioMed Central
Valeria is a Journal Development Editor at BioMed Central for a portfolio of Respiratory journals. She joined BioMed Central in 2016 after two years as an Associate Editor at Springer. Before moving into publishing, Valeria completed a PhD at the University of Bristol, where she studied the role of SK channels in learning and memory.
Not only one leader, but many: Dr James Seddon calls for action on World TB Day
World TB Day, which falls on March 24th each year, is organised by the World Health Organisation with the aim to raise public awareness of the devastating consequences of tuberculosis (TB) and the on-going efforts to end the global TB epidemic. To mark the occasion, we have discussed TB with Dr James Seddon, who has published a highly-accessed review about drug-resistant TB and advances in the treatment of childhood TB in our journal Pneumonia.
24th March marks the day when Robert Koch discovered the infectious nature of TB and identified Mycobacterium tuberculosis as the bacterium responsible for this disease, paving the way for the development of diagnosis and treatment of TB.
Significant progress has been made in the curing TB and 53 million lives were saved through effective diagnosis and treatment of TB between 2000 and 2016, according to the WHO. However, TB is still far from being eradicated and the endemic of drug-resistant TB now poses a serious threat. The WHO estimates 490,000 cases of drug-resistant TB in the world in 2016 alone.
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