Office of the Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2018 Mar;98(3):650-652. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.17-0999. Epub 2018 Jan 11.
Controlling and ultimately ending tuberculosis (TB) as a public health scourge will require a multifaceted and comprehensive approach involving the intensification of public health efforts, including scaling-up the delivery of current diagnostic, preventive, and therapeutic tools. However, a critically important element in the effort to end TB is an accelerated biomedical research effort to address the many unanswered questions about the disease process itself and to develop improved and innovative countermeasures. An intensive effort toward these research goals will facilitate the achievement of the aspirational goal of ending TB.
控制并最终消除结核病（TB）这一公共卫生灾难，需要采取多方面的综合措施，包括加强公共卫生工作，扩大当前诊断、预防和治疗工具的应用。然而，在终结结核病的努力中，一个至关重要的因素是加快开展生物医学研究，以解决有关疾病过程本身的许多未解决问题，并开发出更好的创新对策。朝着这些研究目标努力，将有助于实现终结结核病的理想目标。
