Addressing critical needs in the fight to end tuberculosis with innovative tools and strategies

Mark Hatherill; Richard E Chaisson; Claudia M Denkinger

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1002795

Addressing critical needs in the fight to end tuberculosis with innovative tools and strategies

PLoS Med. 2019 Apr 30;16(4):e1002795. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002795. eCollection 2019 Apr.

Authors

Mark Hatherill¹, Richard E Chaisson², Claudia M Denkinger^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative (SATVI), University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
² Center for Tuberculosis Research, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.
³ Center of Infectious Diseases, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
⁴ FIND, Geneva, Switzerland.

Abstract

This month in PLOS Medicine we launched a Special Issue on New Tools and Strategies for Tuberculosis Diagnosis, Care, and Elimination. In this issue's Editorial, the Guest Editors Claudia Denkinger, Richard Chaisson, and Mark Hatherill highlight some of the research that will publish and how these studies focusing on discovery, clinical trials and implementation research collectively add to the prospects for reaching the EndTB targets of the WHO by 2035.

Publication types

Editorial
Introductory Journal Article

MeSH terms

Disease Eradication* / methods
Disease Eradication* / organization & administration
Disease Eradication* / trends
Health Services Needs and Demand
Humans
Infection Control / methods
Infection Control / organization & administration
Infection Control / trends
Inventions / trends
Needs Assessment*
Therapies, Investigational / methods
Therapies, Investigational / trends
Tuberculosis / epidemiology
Tuberculosis / prevention & control*

Grants and funding

The authors received no specific funding for this work.