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Anti-tuberculosis control

Tuberculosis is an infectious and contagious disease caused by a microbe: Koch's bacillus. It can affect any organ, but its pulmonary location is the most common and makes the disease more dangerous for the community. Contagion is most often between humans and occurs from a pulmonary tuberculosis patient spitting bacilli to a healthy man. This disease is especially common in developing countries and generally poses a major public health problem for States. In these countries, with a high tuberculosis prevalence, it is essential to ensure correct treatment for all recognized tuberculosis patients to prevent them from transmitting their disease to their family or professional entourage. Before 1945, there was no specific treatment for tuberculosis. A whole series of symptomatic treatments were used, which were generally ineffective. But since the discovery of streptomycin by Wacksmann in 1945, man has finally had at his disposal a drug capable of stopping the multiplication of Koch's bacillus and even killing it. After streptomycin, many other effective anti-tuberculosis drugs have been discovered. They are also called antibiotics or antibacterial drugs. To allow healing, these medications must be administered taking into account precise medical rules to avoid failures resulting from insufficient or poorly prescribed treatments and especially to prevent the bacilli from becoming resistant to the drugs administered. The patient who is treated is no longer dangerous to those around him from the first weeks of his treatment, but he must continue it regularly for a year. This is why regularity of treatment is essential. Tuberculosis treatment is administered in dispensaries or health centers.