Reducing tuberculosis transmission: a consensus document from the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe.
Journal
The European respiratory journal
ISSN: 1399-3003
Titre abrégé: Eur Respir J
Pays: England
ID NLM: 8803460
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
06 2019
06 2019
Historique:
received:
25
02
2019
accepted:
18
03
2019
pubmed:
27
4
2019
medline:
30
10
2020
entrez:
27
4
2019
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Evidence-based guidance is needed on 1) how tuberculosis (TB) infectiousness evolves in response to effective treatment and 2) how the TB infection risk can be minimised to help countries to implement community-based, outpatient-based care.This document aims to 1) review the available evidence on how quickly TB infectiousness responds to effective treatment (and which factors can lower or boost infectiousness), 2) review policy options on the infectiousness of TB patients relevant to the World Health Organization European Region, 3) define limitations of the available evidence and 4) provide recommendations for further research.The consensus document aims to target all professionals dealing with TB (
Identifiants
pubmed: 31023852
pii: 13993003.00391-2019
doi: 10.1183/13993003.00391-2019
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Review
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Subventions
Organisme : World Health Organization
ID : 001
Pays : International
Informations de copyright
The content of this work is copyright of the authors or their employers. Design and branding are Copyright ©ERS 2019.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Conflict of interest: G.B. Migliori has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: E. Nardell has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: A. Yedilbayev has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: L. D'Ambrosio has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: R. Centis has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: M. Tadolini has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: M. van den Boom has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: S. Ehsani has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: G. Sotgiu has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: M. Dara has nothing to disclose.