Texas Biomedical Research Institute has established a new $2 million Tuberculosis Innovation and Technology Fund supported by philanthropic investment to accelerate future TB discoveries, therapies ...

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Joanna Tsai, MD, and Stuart C. Ray, MD, discuss how to diagnose and treat bacterial and fungal co- and superinfections.