Control y eliminación de la tuberculosis en España: las estrategias para el siglo XXI

The strategies that should be applied are those for disease control: to improve case detection and treatment of cases with surveillance of cure (especially in contagious cases), to identify, investigate and treat individuals exposed to contagious persons, and to control epidemic outbreaks of TBC. Treatment of infected individuals is an elimination strategy and should be reserved for groups at high risk of developing the disease.