Department of Medicine, Edendale Hospital, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
J Infect Dis. 2011 Nov 15;204 Suppl 4:S1102-9. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jir453.
Clinical and logistic systems to support the timely diagnosis of tuberculosis are currently not preventing large numbers of tuberculosis deaths in South Africa. Context-appropriate systems for the diagnosis of tuberculosis are entirely dependent on effective and responsive management of human resources and an uninterrupted supply of clinical materials. Attention to these components of the tuberculosis program is urgently needed before new diagnostic technologies can be expected to impact on tuberculosis mortality in resource constrained settings.
目前，支持及时诊断结核病的临床和后勤系统并未阻止南非大量结核病死亡。适应当地情况的结核病诊断系统完全依赖于人力资源的有效和及时管理以及临床材料的不间断供应。在新的诊断技术有望对资源有限环境中的结核病死亡率产生影响之前，迫切需要关注结核病规划的这些组成部分。
