Country Progress Report January 2008 - December 2009
Towards Universal Access to Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment
A Guide For Multicentre Trials in High-Burden Countries
Journal of Tuberculosis Research, 2016, 4, 1-8
Published Online March 2016 in SciRes. http://www.scirp.org/journal/jtr
http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/jtr.2016.41001
A policy brief on the organization of prison health
Towards ending tuberculosis and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.
National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Conrol Programme
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Tuberculosis Research and Treatment
Volume 2015, Article ID 752709, 7 pages
The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 21(5) DOI: 10.5588/ijtld.16.0518
Three classess of tests are now recommended in the latest consolidated guideles on tests for tuberculosis infection. It includes for the first-time a new class of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigen-based skin tests (TBSTs), and the two existing clas
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ses of tests: the tuberculin skin test (TST) and the interferon-gamma release assays (IGRAs).
IGRAs and TBSTs use Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex specific antigens and represent a significant advancement to TST which has been used for over half a century.
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The WHO standard: Universal access to rapid tuberculosis diagnostics sets benchmarks to achieve universal access to WHO-recommended rapid diagnostics (WRDs), increase bacteriologically confirmed tuberculosis and drug resistance detection,
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and reduce the time to diagnosis. WHO-recommended rapid diagnostics are highly accurate, cost-effective, reduce the time to treatment initiation, and impact patient-important outcomes.
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