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Science And Technology Facilitates Tuberculosis Prevention And Control: Current Situation, Progress And Countermeasures, Cuihua Liu, Xiaobo Ren, Jing Wang, Yu Pang, Zhou Tong, George Fu Gao

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

Tuberculosis (TB), a chronic communicable disease caused by the pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis, has harassed the human being for long-term and remains to be one of the major public health problems facing the world as well as the leading cause of death from a single infectious agent. We are falling short of TB control targets set by the World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations (UN). To achieve the ambitious targets of global TB prevention and control, there is an urgent need for immediate action as well as science and technology breakthroughs (e.g., a new vaccine and drug) to rapidly reduce …