A new era in the control of tuberculosis

Abstract

In the last two decades of the twentieth century, the world faced an unexpected resurgence of tuberculosis. Favored by the dismantling of control interventions in rich, low incidence countries, by the overburden on national Tuberculosis Programs in resource-poor countries and by the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the number of persons affected and the number of deaths due to tuberculosis started to rise. [...]

Keywords

• Tuberculosis