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1 January 2007

Volume 44, Number 1
Clinical Infectious Diseases 2007;44:61–64
© 2006 by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. All rights reserved.
1058-4838/2007/4401-0010$15.00
DOI: 10.1086/509328
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Patients with Previously Treated Tuberculosis No Longer Neglected

Matteo Zignol,

Abigail Wright,

Ernesto Jaramillo,

Paul Nunn, and

Mario C. Raviglione

STOP TB Department, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Over the past decade, global and national tuberculosis (TB)–control programs, challenged with limited resources, have had to prioritize interventions to maximize impact. For this reason, patients with newly diagnosed cases of TB received more attention than did patients with a previous history of treatment. The recently launched STOP TB Strategy and Global Plan to STOP TB 2006–2015 now promote proper diagnosis and treatment of TB for all patients, without distinction of smear status, drug susceptibility, sex, or age, including all patients with a history of previous treatment. Previously treated patients are difficult to re‐treat and represent an important source of disease transmission, as well as a serious threat to TB control worldwide, because of their higher rate of drug resistance.

Received 30 May 2006; accepted 30 August 2006; electronically published 20 November 2006.

Reprints or correspondence: Dr. Matteo Zignol, STOP TB Dept., World Health Organization, 20, Ave. Appia, CH‐1211 Geneva 27 Switzerland ().

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