Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine at San Francisco General Hospital and Curry International Tuberculosis Center, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA.
J Infect Dis. 2012 May 15;205 Suppl 2(Suppl 2):S159-68. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jis194. Epub 2012 Apr 3.
The development, evaluation, and implementation of new and improved diagnostics have been identified as critical needs by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and tuberculosis researchers and clinicians alike. These needs exist in international and domestic settings and in adult and pediatric populations. Experts in tuberculosis and HIV care, researchers, healthcare providers, public health experts, and industry representatives, as well as representatives of pertinent US federal agencies (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Food and Drug Administration, National Institutes of Health, United States Agency for International Development) assembled at a workshop proposed by the Diagnostics Working Group of the Federal Tuberculosis Taskforce to review the state of tuberculosis diagnostics development in adult and pediatric populations.
新的和改进的诊断方法的开发、评估和实施已经被人类免疫缺陷病毒 (HIV) 和结核病研究人员和临床医生一致认为是关键需求。这些需求存在于国际和国内环境中，以及成人和儿科人群中。结核病和 HIV 护理专家、研究人员、医疗保健提供者、公共卫生专家和行业代表，以及美国相关联邦机构（疾病控制和预防中心、食品和药物管理局、美国国立卫生研究院、美国国际开发署）的代表聚集在联邦结核病工作组诊断工作组成员提出的一个研讨会上，审查成人和儿科人群中结核病诊断方法的发展现状。
