Erschienen in:
25.06.2019 | Commentary
Tuberculosis Control: WHO Perspective and Guidelines
verfasst von:
Avinash Kanchar, Soumya Swaminathan
Erschienen in:
Indian Journal of Pediatrics
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Ausgabe 8/2019
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Excerpt
TB is an old disease that was once a death sentence. Effective drug treatments first became available in the 1940s, and in combination with social and economic development they allowed countries in western Europe, North America and some other parts of the world to reduce their burden of TB disease to very low levels. For most countries, however, the “end” of TB as an epidemic and major public health problem remains an aspiration rather than a reality. …