As the World TB Day is approaching, we bring you an exclusive episode with the esteemed clinician and researcher from the best hospital in United States, professor Zelalem Temesgen from Mayo Clinic in Rochester, who specializes in infectious diseases and TB in particular. In the beginning you can learn about the professor’s motivation for dedicating his professional life to infectious diseases, tuberculosis, and HIV in particular. And why infectious diseases were and still are a medical field worth delving into. In the name of World TB Day, we also discussed in more detail where we stand with tuberculosis today, challenges new and old, treatment, drug resistance and vaccination. Gradually we moved on to HIV as well, to compare the progress in treatment, and we did not forget mention the COVID-19 pandemic from the professor’s perspective.

Here is the promised link for professor’s Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases

https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-clinical-tuberculosis-and-other-mycobacterial-diseases

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