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Chinese Journal of Antituberculosis ›› 2020, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (8): 794-798.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1000-6621.2020.08.004

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To formulate prevention and control strategy for latent tuberculosis infection population in China

ZHU Li-mei*(), CHEN Can-can, CHEN Wei(), HU Xiao-guang, ZHANG Ya-nan, MA Jun-yang   

  1. *Department of Chronic Communicable Disease, Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing 210009, China
  • Received:2020-06-09 Online:2020-08-10 Published:2020-08-10
  • Contact: ZHU Li-mei,CHEN Wei E-mail:lilyam0921@163.com;chenwei@zhifeishengwu.com

Abstract:

To strengthen the management of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) populations is one of the important ways to achieve the goal of tuberculosis (TB) prevention and control. Lower contribution rate of high-risk population in the incidence of TB, unclear risk characteristics, limited screening methods, and difficulty in preventive drug promotion, etc., are the problems of China’s LTBI management. A prevention and control strategy for LTBI population is proposed to improve the situation. We wonder to reduce the harm of TB to the whole society by health education, especially guiding and the adopting suitable public health measures for the whole population by national policy. As an important supplement to the management strategy of patients and high-risk population, scientific and feasible population management strategy of LTBI, including making full use of current innovative technologies to carry out active screening, population monitoring and other measures, in order to formulate TB infection control plans and policies in China, and it is important to gradually achieve the goal of “End TB”.

Key words: Latent tuberculosis, Infection control, Population surveillance