Biography
Stefan Weber is a medical doctor working at Heidelberg University Hospital, Germany in the Department of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine and in the Department of Parasitology. Stefan has experience in clinical infectious diseases, tropical diseases and pediatrics as well as in medical microbiology and parasitology. He combines his clinical duties with research focusing on tuberculosis aiming to improve diagnosis of TB and other infectious diseases in high-burden settings.
Key Impacts
What is it if it's not TB? Infections causing a similar clinical picture and their morbidity and mortality
Fungal (9%) and NTM (12%) infections were frequent in presumptive TB patients and mortality in TB and NoTB exceeded 10%. Identification of cultured fungi and specific fungal PCRs (Histoplasma, Blastomyces) for final fungal classification are pending. Further analyses including sequencing of cultured NTM-strains, stool and sputum PCR for Paragonimus and metagenomics on sputum will be applied to better differentiate clinically relevant infections.
Source: Conference 2024