Can treatment delay be utilized as a key variable for monitoring the pool of infectious tuberculosis in a population? | Zendy

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Can treatment delay be utilized as a key variable for monitoring the pool of infectious tuberculosis in a population?

Author(s) -

Dag Gundersen Storla,

Solomon Abebe Yimer,

Gunnar Bjune

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

the journal of infection in developing countries

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.322

H-Index - 49

eISSN - 2036-6590

pISSN - 1972-2680

DOI - 10.3855/jidc.211

Subject(s) - tuberculosis , key (lock) , intensive care medicine , medicine , population , variable (mathematics) , virology , geography , computer science , environmental health , computer security , pathology , mathematics , mathematical analysis

A major goal of tuberculosis control programs is to stop community transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. However, this can not be rapidly accomplished because, in endemic areas, most of the population is already infected, serving as a reservoir that continuously contributes to the pool of infectious cases. Tuberculin surveys are the main tools used to monitor the infectious pool, but there are serious methodological constraints, and they require resources and expertise that are often unavailable. There is an urgent need for alternative means to monitor the epidemic at the local level.

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