TY - JOUR
T1 - TB or not TB
T2 - Update from the ERS respiratory infection assembly 10
AU - Miravitlles, M.
AU - Ferrara, G.
AU - Lange, C.
AU - Dimopoulos, G.
AU - Rohde, G.
AU - Blasi, F.
AU - Migliori, G. B.
PY - 2010/9
Y1 - 2010/9
N2 - Lower respiratory tract infections and tuberculosis represent some of the top health priorities in Europe. In the present report, the most recent advances in the field of disease control, clinical research and basic science of lower respiratory tract infections and tuberculosis are presented through analysis of some of the best abstracts presented at the 19th European Respiratory Society Congress in Vienna (Austria). Pathogenesis, diagnosis, treatment, prognostic factors and novel diagnostic techniques relevant for bacterial and viral infections, as well as new tools for the diagnosis of latent and active tuberculosis in different sub-groups of patients, are discussed. The growing epidemiological threat represented by multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis cases is presented and its impact analysed. Copyright
AB - Lower respiratory tract infections and tuberculosis represent some of the top health priorities in Europe. In the present report, the most recent advances in the field of disease control, clinical research and basic science of lower respiratory tract infections and tuberculosis are presented through analysis of some of the best abstracts presented at the 19th European Respiratory Society Congress in Vienna (Austria). Pathogenesis, diagnosis, treatment, prognostic factors and novel diagnostic techniques relevant for bacterial and viral infections, as well as new tools for the diagnosis of latent and active tuberculosis in different sub-groups of patients, are discussed. The growing epidemiological threat represented by multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis cases is presented and its impact analysed. Copyright
KW - European Respiratory Society Congress
KW - Respiratory infections
KW - Tuberculosis
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U2 - 10.1183/09031936.00054410
DO - 10.1183/09031936.00054410
M3 - Article
C2 - 20525720
AN - SCOPUS:77956603064
VL - 36
SP - 665
EP - 670
JO - European Journal of Respiratory Diseases
JF - European Journal of Respiratory Diseases
SN - 0903-1936
IS - 3
ER -