Latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is characterised by the presence of immune responses
to previously acquired Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection without clinical evidence of …

This paper describes an action framework for countries with low tuberculosis (TB) incidence
(<100 TB cases per million population) that are striving for TB elimination. The framework …

Part of the reason for failing to bring about a more rapid reduction in tuberculosis incidence
worldwide is the lack of effective involvement of all practitioners—public and private—in the …

On May 19, 2014, the 67th World Health Assembly (WHA) adopted WHO’s “Global strategy
and targets for tuberculosis prevention, care and control after 2015”. 1 This post-2015 global …

2 Frieden TR, Munsiff SS. The DOTS strategy for controlling the global tuberculosis epidemic.
Clin Chest Med 2005; 26: 197–205. 3 Dye C, Watt CJ, Bleed DM, Hosseini SM, Raviglione …

Setting: Rural and urban areas of Maharashtra, a large state in Western India.Objective: To
understand tuberculosis (TB) management practices among private medical practitioners (…

Brazil 51· 3 45· 6 Tanzania 39· 3 38· 3 Kenya 35· 9 35· 9 Thailand 67· 0 65· 4 Myanmar 87·
4 87· 4 Afghanistan 59· 4 59· 4 Uganda 64· 9 48· 2 Peru 60· 3 50· 2 Zimbabwe 56· 6 38· 2 …

Tuberculosis (TB) is an ancient disease, but not a disease of the past. After disappearing from
the world public health agenda in the 1960s and 1970s, TB returned in the early 1990s for …

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Setting Mumbai, India. A study conducted in Mumbai two decades ago revealed the extent
of inappropriate tuberculosis (TB) management practices of private practitioners. Over the …