2012, Number 3
Pulmonary tuberculosis: a current challenge to the Cuban Public Health System
Sánchez PJ, Verga TB, Sánchez CL
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ABSTRACT
An update about pulmonary tuberculosis aimed at increasing the level of information of medical doctors and the personnel who are in charge of the control of this disease was conducted analyzing the worldwide and Cuban situation. Criteria of diverse experts about the causes that have favored the emergence of tuberculosis and the factors falling through the control programs, where among the most important are: the deficient active searching of cases who are considered reservoirs and the multi-drug resistance to Mycobacterium tuberculosis, due to the application of inadequate treatments.