Turning off the tap: stopping tuberculosis transmission through active case-finding and prompt effective treatment

• Published in: The Lancet (British edition) Vol. 386; no. 10010; pp. 2334 - 2343
• Main Authors: Yuen, Courtney M, Amanullah, Farhana, Dharmadhikari, Ashwin, Nardell, Edward A, Seddon, James A, Vasilyeva, Irina, Zhao, Yanlin, Keshavjee, Salmaan, Becerra, Mercedes C
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Elsevier Ltd 05.12.2015; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Cross Infection - prevention & control; Cross Infection - transmission; Disease control; Disease transmission; Early Diagnosis; Epidemics; Humans; Internal Medicine; Mass Screening - organization & administration; Medical treatment; Mycobacterium; Secondary Prevention - methods; Translational Medical Research - methods; Tuberculosis; Tuberculosis - diagnosis; Tuberculosis - drug therapy; Tuberculosis - epidemiology; Tuberculosis - transmission

To halt the global tuberculosis epidemic, transmission must be stopped to prevent new infections and new cases. Identification of individuals with tuberculosis and prompt initiation of effective treatment to rapidly render them non-infectious is crucial to this task. However, in settings of high tub...