June 28, 2010

Evidence-based Tuberculosis Diagnosis

The Stop TB Partnership's New Diagnostics Working Group has recently (August 2009) launched a new website resource called Evidence-based Tuberculosis Diagnosis. According to Madhukar Pai
Several agencies, groups and individuals contributed to the development of this comprehensive resource. These include the WHO, the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND), the Global Laboratory Initiative, the Francis J Curry National TB Centre, McGill University and the Public Health Agency of Canada.
The section is IGRA has 7 reviews and was last updated 25 May 2010, the section on TST has 2 and was last updated 19 August 2009.