Dorman S
Center for Tuberculosis Research, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2015 May;19(5):504-16. doi: 10.5588/ijtld.15.0048.
Lack of diagnosis and diagnostic capacity remain barriers to tuberculosis (TB) control. This review describes recent advances in TB diagnostics, the current TB diagnostic landscape, and some of the key challenges in the quest for accurate, simple diagnostic tests that have meaningful impact on the health of individual patients and on TB epidemiology.
诊断缺失和诊断能力不足仍是结核病防控的障碍。本综述描述了结核病诊断的最新进展、当前结核病诊断的现状,以及在寻求对个体患者健康和结核病流行病学有重大影响的准确、简单诊断检测方面的一些关键挑战。