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Chinese Journal of Antituberculosis ›› 2021, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (5): 428-431.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1000-6621.2021.05.003

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Making panoramic plan:extra-pulmonary tuberculosis needs to be integrated into the national tuberculosis program

LIU Er-yong, LI Yu-hong, ZHOU Lin(), ZHAO Yan-lin()   

  1. National Center for Tuberculosis Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 102206, China
  • Received:2021-02-22 Online:2021-05-10 Published:2021-04-30
  • Contact: ZHOU Lin,ZHAO Yan-lin E-mail:zhoulin@chinacdc.cn;zhaoyl@chinacdc.cn

Abstract:

To achieve the goal of ‘Ending the TB epidemic’,pulmonary tuberculosis and extra-pulmonary tuberculosis must be jointly prevented and controlled. This article summarized the current situation of extra-pulmonary tuberculosis in China, and systematically sorted out the difficulties and challenges in the prevention and treatment of tuberculosis from the aspects of laboratory testing methods commonly used in tuberculosis and problems in the prevention and treatment process. Based on this, the author puts forward the countermeasures and suggestions of integrating tuberculosis into tuberculosis prevention and control planning and management, implementing free diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis, vigorously promoting the application of new diagnostic tools, strengthening scientific research on tuberculosis to improve the level of tuberculosis diagnosis technology, and carrying out multisectoral and multidisciplinary collaboration.

Key words: Extra-pulmonary tuberculosis, Communicable disease control, Capacity building, Comprehensive precautions, Comment