Program Aimed at Eradication of Tuberculosis

The eradication of tuberculosis.

Reliability of biopsy-based diagnostic tests for Helicobacter pylori after treatment aimed at its eradication.

OBJECTIVE Recurrence of Heliobacter pylori after apparently successful treatment mostly represents resurgence of the infection, rather than a new one. Therefore, the reliability of biopsy-based tests after treatment was investigated. METHODS Four weeks or more after treatment, antral biopsy samples were taken for culture, histology, urease test and polymerase chain reaction (PCR), and a corpu...

Bovine tuberculosis eradication.

Sec. 457. On or before October 15, 2008, and on a quarterly basis thereafter, the department shall report to the senate and house agriculture committees, the senate and house appropriations subcommittees on agriculture, and the senate and house fiscal agencies on the department’s progress toward meeting USDA requirements as outlined in the March 2007 bovine TB program review. The report shall i...

Training aimed at nurses

Bovine tuberculosis eradication in Australia

The national bovine tuberculosis and brucellosis eradication pro­ gramme in Australia was developed in 1968 and officially started in July 1970 on a regional basis. The method of prophylaxis of bovine tuberculosis consis­ ted of a strict identification and systematic tuberculin testing of cattle as well as the inspection of carcasses at the abattoir in order to find the original herd of tubercu...