Tuberculosis began to hurt less, but it has become more difficult to treat

According to preliminary data FPHI at the end of last year in Russia were registered 211 9000 TB patients. Compared with 2009, when the country registered a 262, 7 thousand infected, the situation straightened a little. However, patients with multidrug-resistant (MDR) Mycobacterium tuberculosis to the contrary, has increased: 34,778 in 2013 against 34,838 in 2012.

Diagnosis of tuberculosis

Statistics of tuberculosis in Russia is comparable with the data of the WHO. Over the past few years, hurt in the EU have become less, on average, by 5% per year. However, the situation with drug resistance abroad is not better - cure rates in these patients is also quite low.

If the level of MDR-TB to the pathogen population is very high, experts WHO Urges States to develop national programs to detect and treat patients where conventional therapy is not valid.

"We need to focus on early diagnosis of this disease, which use modern techniques and equipment. Only in this way will prevent the emergence of drug-resistant mycobacteria with wide or multi-drug resistant ", - said Chief Freelance phthisiatrician Health Ministry Irina Vasilyeva.

Before the advent of the method diagnosis of tuberculosis   using liquid media treatment is often prescribed to patients without test results (before the laboratory findings received a doctor), so the therapeutic regimen does not always imply the impact of a particular mycobacteria - the causative agent of tuberculosis.

Back in 2007, the World Health Organization called the technique of liquid media "standard of care" in the diagnosis of tuberculosis. In late October, the 2013th The Russian government adopted a decree on financial support measures aimed at prevention and treatment of this disease, which means at medical facilities will have a real opportunity to improve the diagnostic tool. It is expected that after the adoption of the recommendations of the Federal clinical diagnosis for liquid media will become mandatory in the allocation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and the choice of therapeutic regimen. "According to our data, the method of diagnosis of tuberculosis in liquid media allows you to put an accurate diagnosis more quickly than with conventional microbiological tests," - says CEO of BD in Russia and the CIS Elena Chirkov. (READ MORE)

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