Tuberculosis Diagnosis — Time for a Game Change

Abstract

The effective treatment of tuberculosis is a lifesaving intervention. The global scale-up of tuberculosis therapy has averted 6 million deaths over the past 15 years, making it one of the greatest public health interventions of our lifetime.¹ Unfortunately, by the time most patients are treated, they have already infected many others.² This failure to interrupt transmission fuels the global epidemic so that every year there are more new cases of tuberculosis than in the previous year.¹