ECDC on air.

The podcast of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control.

Keeping up to date with European Epidemiology.

Hello and welcome to this podcast.

My name is Catherine and I am your host for today's episode of ECDC on air.

This is the podcast of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control,

which is recorded from our headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden.

In this episode, we will talk about tuberculosis and in particular molecular surveillance,

detection of new epidemics and the discovery of emerging strains.

To shed some light on these fascinating subjects, we have with us Kshaba Todman, a microbiology expert at the CDC.

Hello, Shabha.

Hello, Catherine. It's my pleasure to be here today.

Could you first introduce yourself and tell us what led you to work on TB?

I got a Master of Sciences in Molecular Biology, and after that I started to work in the

TB laboratory at the respiratory clinic of Semmelweis University in Budapest.

And in fact, that was my first real contact with mycobacteria, in particular mycobacterium

tuberculosis.

After five years working at the respiratory clinic, I really got

in love with the topic and with working with microbiacterium tuberculosis. And based on that,

I did my PhD in theoretical medical sciences, focusing on medical microbiology and molecular

diagnostic and molecular characterization of

microbacterium tuberculosis was my major topic.

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