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17690054

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
23
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-4-22
pubmed:abstractText
Recognizing that tuberculosis (TB) is still the leading cause of human death from a curable infection, the international health community has set ambitious targets for disease control. One target is to eliminate TB by 2050; that is, to cut the annual incidence of new cases to less than 1 per million population. National TB control programmes are working to eliminate TB mainly by intensifying efforts to find and cure patients with active disease. Here, we use mathematical modelling to show that, while most TB patients can be cured with present drug regimens, the 2050 target is far more likely to be achieved with a combination of diagnostics, drugs and vaccines that can detect and treat both latent infection and active disease. We find that the coupling of control methods is particularly effective because treatments for latent infection and active disease act in synergy. This synergistic effect offers new perspectives on the cost-effectiveness of treating latent TB infection and the impact of possible new TB vaccines. Our results should be a stimulus to those who develop, manufacture and implement new technology for TB control, and to their financial donors.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
1742-5689
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
6
pubmed:volume
5
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
653-62
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
Eliminating human tuberculosis in the twenty-first century.
pubmed:affiliation
HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, World Health Organization, Avenue Appia 20, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland. dyec@who.int
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't