World tuberculosis day 2023 – Reflections on the spread of drug-resistant tuberculosis by travellers and reducing risk in forcibly displaced populations

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2023
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Rodriguez-Morales, A.J.
Abbara, A.
Ntoumi, F.
Kapata, N.
Mwaba, P.
Yeboah-Manu, D.
Maeurer, M.
Dar, O.
Abubakar, I.
Zumla, A.
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World Tuberculosis (TB) Day, March 24th, 2023, will commemorate the day in 1882 when Professor Robert Koch announced his discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) when TB ravaged Europe. Over a century later, in 1993, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared TB a global health emergency. Since then, there have been 60 million deaths due to TB. The tragic state of affairs reflects a great paradox – that, despite affordable and effective TB treatment being available for the past seven decades, the latest 2022 WHO Annual Global Tuberculosis Report highlights that TB remains a leading cause of ill health and death from an infectious disease worldwide...
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12805/4693
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tmaid.2023.102568
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