Tuberculosis: An Update for the Clinician.

• Tác giả: Brian Allwood, Andreas H Diacon, Saskia Janssen, Melissa Murphy, Caryn Upton
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Thông tin xuất bản: Australia : Respirology (Carlton, Vic.) , 2025
• Bộ sưu tập: NCBI
• ID: 737481

Tóm tắt

Tuberculosis (TB) remains a significant global health threat with high mortality and efforts to meet WHO End TB Strategy milestones are off-track. It has become clear that TB is not a dichotomous infection with latent and active forms but presents along a disease spectrum. Subclinical TB plays a larger role in transmission than previously thought. Aerosol studies have shown that undiagnosed TB patients, even with paucibacillary disease, can be highly infectious and significantly contribute to TB spread. Encouraging clinical results have been seen with the M72/AS01