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Chinese Journal of Antituberculosis ›› 2019, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (11): 1145-1148.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1000-6621.2019.11.001

• Retrospect and Prospect •     Next Articles

Historic review of anti-tuberculosis chemotherapy during seventy years of the People’s Republic of China

FAN Lin(),XIONG Kun-long,XIAO He-ping()   

  1. Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Clinic and Research Center of Tuberculosis, Shanghai Key Lab of Tuberculosis, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200433,China
  • Received:2019-09-28 Online:2019-11-10 Published:2019-12-05

Abstract:

Tuberculosis (TB) is an ancient disease. The historical process of chemotherapy of tuberculosis is worth reviewing and summing up due to its occurrence and development accompanied with human long term and arduous struggle against TB. With the founding of the People’s Republic of China and the development of various aspects of our country in the past 70 years, and from the advent of the first generation of anti-tuberculosis chemotherapy drugs and chemotherapy regimen in the early 1950s, to the research and development of new anti-tuberculosis drugs, as well as the exploration, improvement and perfection of chemotherapy regimen including preventive treatment, the progress of chemotherapy for tuberculosis in the 70 years since the founding of the People’s Republic of China confirms the course of complete control of tuberculosis in human history.

Key words: Tuberculosis, Drug therapy, Tuberculosis, multidrug-resistant, Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, Clinical protocols, Anniversaries and special events, Comment