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Call for Funding of Research and Development Projects in all Scientific Domains - 2008

Enhancing the killing of intracellular multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDRTB) by human macrophages: a new chemotherapeutic strategy to fight MDRTB.

PTDC/SAU-FCF/102807/2008

Main Research Area
Health Sciences - Pharmacology and Pharmacological Sciences
Secondary Research Area
Health Sciences - Microbiology, Infection, Immunology and Inflammation
Keywords
Extensively-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR-TB)
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
New anti-Tuberculosis agents
Efflux pumps inhibitors
Funding
€ 191,134.00
Institutions
Main Contractor
Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical (IHMT/UNL)
Participating Institutions
Associação para o Desenvolvimento do Ensino e Investigação da Microbiologia (ADEIM)
Main Research Unit
Unidade de Parasitologia e Microbiologia Médicas (UPMM/IHMT/UNL)
Team
Principal Investigator
MIGUEL VIVEIROS BETTENCOURT
Researchers
Ana Sofia Fernandes Martins
Leonard Amaral
Isabel Maria dos Santos Leitão Couto
Elsa Maria Ribeiro dos Santos Anes
Marta Sofia Lopes Martins
Maria Isabel Nobre Franco de Portugal Dias Jordão
Liliana Isabel Dias Rodrigues
Jorge Alexandre dos Santos Ramos
Diana Isabel Oliveira Machado
Gabriella Spengler