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Tuberculosis - Annual Epidemiological Report for 2019
In 2019, 29 countries in the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) reported a total of 49 752 tuberculosis (TB) cases (9.6 per 100 000 population).
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Tuberculosis surveillance and monitoring in Europe 2021 –2019 data
This report provides an overview of the latest TB epidemiological situation and is published jointly by the WHO Regional Office for Europe and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
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Multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis in the EU/EEA, 2019
Multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis in the EU/EEA, 2019
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Ending tuberculosis is a race against time and drug resistance
The tuberculosis (TB) burden in the WHO European Region as a whole is decreasing, and is down 19% overall for 2015–2019, according to the latest WHO/European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) report Tuberculosis surveillance and monitoring in Europe 2021 (2019 data).
Use of a whole genome sequencing-based approach for Mycobacterium tuberculosis surveillance in Europe in 2017-2019: an ECDC pilot study
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E. Tagliani, R. Anthony, T. A. Kohl, A. de Neeling, V. Nikolayevskyy, C. Ködmön, F. P. Maurer, S. Niemann, D. van Soolingen, M. J. van der Werf and D. M. Cirillo
European Union training programme for tuberculosis laboratory experts: Design, contribution and future direction
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Raftery, P., Ködmön, C., Van Der Werf, M.J., Nikolayevskyy, V.
Completeness of tuberculosis (TB) notification: Inventory studies and capture-recapture analyses, six European Union countries, 2014 to 2016
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Straetemans, M., Bakker, M.I., Alba, S., Mergenthaler, C., Rood, E., Andersen, P.H., Schimmel, H., Simunovic, A., Svetina, P., Carvalho, C., Lyytikäinen, O., Abubakar, I., Harris, R.J., Ködmön, C., Van Der Werf, M.J., Van Hest, R.
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Tuberculosis - Annual Epidemiological Report for 2017
Thirty-one EU/EEA countries reported 55 337 TB cases, 10.7 per 100 000 population.
Drug-resistant tuberculosis in eastern Europe and central Asia: a time-series analysis of routine surveillance data
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Dadu A, Hovhannesyan A, Ahmedov S, van der Werf MJ, Dara M.
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Every hour 30 people are diagnosed with tuberculosis in the European Region. It’s time to make TB a disease of the past
The latest ECDC/WHO report Tuberculosis surveillance and monitoring in Europe 2019 (2017 data) shows that despite an overall decline in numbers of people suffering from TB, the disease remains a major public health challenge in the Region.