Joint efforts urgently needed at times of emerging tuberculosis drug resistance

Joint efforts needed to stop transmission of tuberculosis in Europe.

Even though the number of notified tuberculosis (TB) cases in the World Health Organization (WHO) European Region has continuously gone down, from 474,794 in 2007 to 380,366 in 2011 [1], there is no room for complacency. The number of extrapulmonary TB (EPTB) cases in the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA) is not decreasing and a considerable number of TB patients do not f...

Drug policy for methamphetamine use urgently needed.

Smoking among tuberculosis patients in Kerala, India: proactive cessation efforts are urgently needed.

OBJECTIVES To document smoking patterns among tuberculosis (TB) patients at eight different points of time before, during and after treatment, and to investigate the frequency and content of the quit smoking messages they received. DESIGN A stratified random sample of 215 male TB patients from Kerala, India, who had completed treatment in the previous 9 months was surveyed using a pre-tested ...

New research and development strategy for tuberculosis diagnostics urgently needed.

584 www.thelancet.com/infection Vol 12 August 2012 3 Dewan PK, Grinsdale JA, Liska S, Wong E, Fallstad R, Kawamura LM. Feasibility, acceptability, and cost of tuberculosis testing by whole-blood interferon-gamma assay. BMC Infect Dis 2006; 6: 47. 4 Chaisson RE, Keruly JC, McAvinue S, Gallant JE, Moore RD. Eff ects of an incentive and education program on return rates for PPD test reading in pat...

A STUDY OF MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS DRUG RESISTANCE IN PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS

Tuberculosis remains a major public health problem in both developing and developed countries. Drug-resistant tuberculosis is an increasing health problem and serious challenge to tuberculosis (TB) control programs. Information about the susceptibility pattern of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates against anti-tuberculosis drugs is an important aspect to TB control. The objectives of the s...