National Action Plan to Combat Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis

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• Alternative Title:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Recommendations and Reports, June 19, 1992 / Vol. 41 / No. RR-11: National Action Plan to Combat Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis
• Journal Article:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report: Recommendations and Reports
• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control (U.S.)
• Description:
  At no time in recent history has tuberculosis (TB) been as great a concern as it is today. TB cases are on the increase, and the most serious aspect of the problem is the recent occurrence of outbreaks of multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB, which pose an urgent public health problem and require rapid intervention. A Task Force composed of representatives of many federal agencies has developed a National Action Plan for addressing this problem. The Task Force identified a number of objectives to be met if MDR-TB is to be successfully combatted. These objectives fail under the categories of a) surveillance and epidemiology -- determining the magnitude and nature of the problem; b) laboratory diagnosis -- improving the rapidity, sensitivity, and reliability of diagnostic methods for MDR-TB; c) patient management -- effectively managing patients who have MDR-TB and preventing patients with drug-susceptible TB from developing drug- resistant disease; d) screening and preventive therapy -- identifying persons who are infected with or at risk of developing MDR-TB and preventing them from developing clinically active TB; e) infection control -- minimizing the risk of transmission of MDR-TB to patients, workers, and others in institutional settings; f) outbreak control; g) program evaluation -- ensuring that TB programs are effective in managing patients and preventing MDR-TB; h) information dissemination/ training and education; and i) research to provide new, more effective tools with which to combat MDR-TB. The Action Plan lays out a series of activities to be undertaken at the national level. For each category, the Plan presents statements of problems to be overcome, followed by a summary of the objective to be achieved and steps to be carried out. For each implementation step, responsibility is assigned to the appropriate organization and start- up dates are listed. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Communicable Disease Control Communicable Diseases Occupational Health Public Health Respiratory System Respiratory Tract Diseases Safety Tuberculosis
• Keywords:
  Infection-control; Infectious-diseases; Respiratory-system-disorders; Pulmonary-system-disorders; Drug-interaction; Drugs; Public-health; Disease-control; Disease-prevention; Disease-transmission
• Source:
  MMWR Recomm Rep 1992 Jun; 41(RR-11):1-48
• Series:
  Recommendations and Reports: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• ISSN:
  1057-5987
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Georgia ; Maryland ; New Mexico ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 6
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OD - Office of the Director
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  36 pdf pages
• Volume:
  41
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20031374
• Citation:
  MMWR Recomm Rep 1992 Jun; 41(RR-11):1-48
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1992
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:4e8495df25e908d9b2ce38e8f9692ffc499a53e5b82223e59cce23a66bc9893a0c19a390e8c0729bf86659eed258eaf05158afb056b8ea45e96583f5e19c284c
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/182960/cdc_182960_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
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