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Public health guidance on management of contacts of MDR TB and XDR TB patients
The goal of this guidance is to contribute towards preventing as many MDR TB and XDR TB cases as possible in the EU/EEA. Given that MDR TB and XDR TB is becoming more prevalent, the issue of how to manage contacts of MDR TB patients is becoming increasingly relevant. The specific aim of this document is to provide guidance on issues relevant to the management of contacts of MDR TB and XDR TB patients.
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1st Eastern Partnership Ministerial Conference on Tuberculosis and Multi-Drug Resistance Tuberculosis
High-level meeting to discuss the burden of TB and MDR TB and its elimination as a public health problem in the EU/EEA and Eastern Partnership countries.
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New tuberculosis drugs approved by European Medicines Agency
The European Medicines Agency has recommended marketing authorisations for three new drugs used for the treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.
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Progressing towards tuberculosis elimination in the european union and european economic area
Van Der Werf, M.J., Antoine, D.
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Drug-resistance - A challenge for tuberculosis control in the European Union and European economic area
Van der Werf, M.J., Sprenger, M.
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Management of patients with multidrugresistant/ extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in Europe: a TBNET consensus statement
Lange, C., Abubakar, I., Alffenaar, J.-W.C., Bothamley, G., Caminero, J.A., Carvalho, A.C.C., Chang, K.-C., Codecasa, L., Correia, A., Crudu, V., Davies, P., Dedicoat, M., Drobniewski, F., Duarte, R., Ehlers, C., Erkens, C., Goletti, D., Gunther, G., Ibraim, E., Kampmann, B., Kuksa, L., de Lange, W., van Leth, F., van Lunzen, J., Matteelli, A., Menzies, D., Monedero, I., Richter, E., Rusch-Gerdes, S., Sandgren, A., Scardigli, A., Skrahina, A., Tortoli, E., Volchenkov, G., Wagner, D., Van Der Werf, M.J., Williams, B., Yew, W.-W., Zellweger, J.-P., Cirillo, D.M.
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Fighting tuberculosis in the EU/EEA: Towards the new European Union standards on tuberculosis care
Sotgiu, G., Beer, N., Aliberti, S., Migliori, G.B., Van Der Werf, M.J.
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European Union Standards for Tuberculosis Care - 2017 update
ECDC and the European Respiratory Society (ERS) have developed the European Union Standards for Tuberculosis Care (ESTC).
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Childhood multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in the European union and European economic area: An analysis of tuberculosis surveillance data from 2007 to 2015
Ködmön, C., van den Boom, M., Zucs, P., van der Werf, M.J.
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A cluster of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis among patients arriving in Europe from the Horn of Africa: a molecular epidemiological study
Walker, T.M., Merker, M., Knoblauch, A.M., Helbling, P., Schoch, O.D., van der Werf, M.J., Kranzer, K., Fiebig, L., Kröger, S., Haas, W., Hoffmann, H., Indra, A., Egli, A., Cirillo, D.M., Robert, J., Rogers, T.R., Groenheit, R., Mengshoel, A.T., Mathys, V., Haanperä, M., Soolingen, D.V., Niemann, S., Böttger, E.C., Keller, P.M., Avsar, K., Bauer, C., Bernasconi, E., Borroni, E., Brusin, S., Coscollá Dévis, M., Crook, D.W., Dedicoat, M., Fitzgibbon, M., Gagneux, S., Geiger, F., Guthmann, J.-P., Hendrickx, D., Hoffmann-Thiel, S., van Ingen, J., Jackson, S., Jaton, K., Lange, C., Mazza Stalder, J., O'Donnell, J., Opota, O., Peto, T.E.A., Preiswerk, B., Roycroft, E., Sato, M., Schacher, R., Schulthess, B., Smith, E.G., Soini, H., Sougakoff, W., Tagliani, E., Utpatel, C., Veziris, N., Wagner-Wiening, C., Witschi, M.