CURRENT SCENARIO ON TUBERCULOSIS: A REVIEW
Sanghamitra Dara, Gottipati Navyatha, Sitty Manohar Babu and Dr. Kannan Vadivel*
ABSTRACT
Tuberculosis is an ancient disease of mankind suffering badly from very ancient years. Even though having sophisticated equipment and method of diagnosis and treatment, still remains like a life threatening disease in the world in firstly and second only to HIV. According to world health organisation, tuberculosis is a pandemic disease and in this mainly prospecting the reasons for disease causing the present situation. To eradicate the disease completely in future years, various health programmes were raised to get awareness of the disease and to prevent and to treat the people gets effected. Different types of diagnosing techniques were illustrated for TB, Management aspects, pathogenesis of the disease, and current situation of TB in the world, several programmes and challenges were discussed. By having complete and clean knowledge of the contagious diseases like tuberculosis and also encouragement is the most importantly needed for developing new and highly efficacious drugs with less toxicity against the disease and resistant drug development is necessary.
Keywords: Tuberculosis, Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, TB Interferon gamma release assays, Management, Global and Indian scenario, Nikshay.
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