{"title":"Tuberculosis control--is DOTS the health breakthrough of the 1990s?","authors":"A Kochi","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The resurgence of tuberculosis in recent years has made an effective control strategy indispensable. The strategy exists and is called DOTS--Directly Observed Treatment, Short-course. It has proved its effectiveness and now needs to be used worldwide on a much larger scale.</p>","PeriodicalId":77465,"journal":{"name":"World health forum","volume":"18 3-4","pages":"225-32; discussion 233-47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"World health forum","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The resurgence of tuberculosis in recent years has made an effective control strategy indispensable. The strategy exists and is called DOTS--Directly Observed Treatment, Short-course. It has proved its effectiveness and now needs to be used worldwide on a much larger scale.