Tuberculosis Prevention

Tuberculosis: 10. Prevention.

Tuberculosis (TB) can be prevented by means of 2 major strategies. The first is to prevent transmission from patients with active, contagious forms of the disease to uninfected people; this strategy will prevent new infections. The other strategy aims to prevent development (called reactivation) of disease after infection. Prevention is possible if the person has undergone BCG (bacille Calmette...

The Prevention of Tuberculosis

au important place in our never-ceasing struggle against the disease. After many futile attempts to confer immunity by the injection of products of tubercle bacilli, recourse was had b}^ these gentleman to the employment of attenuated cultures, and such was their success that there is no longer any doubt that absolute immunity can be expected by the inoculation of young cattle, if these be free...

The Prevention of Tuberculosis

It is now nearly thirty years since Yillemin published his great work, Etudes sur la Tuberculose, in which he gives an account of his inoculation experiments: often briefly quoted in illustration of the fact that so long ago as 1865 positive evidence had been given of the communicability of this disease. This brief and passing recognition, however, scarcely suffices in acknowledgment of the phi...

The Prevention of Tuberculosis

With regard to tuberculous infection we may divide the life of a human being into three periods: 1. The pre-infection period; 2. the incubation period; and 3. the period of latency and of manifest tuberculous disease. The end of the pre-infection period is determined by the occurrence of. the first infection. The end of the incubation period is marked by the establishment of tuberculin sensitiv...

Tuberculosis Prevention in South Africa

BACKGROUND South Africa has one of the highest per capita rates of tuberculosis (TB) incidence in the world. In 2012, the South African government produced a National Strategic Plan (NSP) to control the spread of TB with the ambitious aim of zero new TB infections and deaths by 2032, and a halving of the 2012 rates by 2016. METHODS We used a transmission model to investigate whether the NSP t...

Causes and Prevention of Tuberculosis