Innovative diagnostic and therapeutic measures to improve MDR-TB diagnosis and management in Conakry, Guinea Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
Lansana Mady Camara, Alexandre Delamou, Leen Rigouts, Bouke de Jong
Tuberculosis remains underdiagnosed despite the increase of notified drug-susceptible and rifampicin-resistant (RR) tuberculosis cases in 2017. According to the 2018 World Health Organization (WHO) report, 64% and 28.7% of the estimated number of incident drug susceptible and RR-TB cases were diagnosed. Therefore, WHO recommends contact tracing as an essential component of the End TB Strategy, and recommends to systematically screen household ...