Hong Kong Training Portal on
Infection Control and Infectious Disease

The End TB Strategy (WHO)

• Global Epidemiology of Tuberculosis and Progress Toward Meeting Global Targets — Worldwide, 2018 (March 20, 2020)
• End TB Strategy: Time to Move on From the Skin Test to the Interferon-γ Release Assays (May 02, 2019)

Journal database

• Tuberculosis 2019 (The Lancet)
• Search Results of New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM)

Epidemiology and Public Health

• 2019: A Banner Year for Tuberculosis Research (11 February 2020)
• Trained innate immunity and resistance to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection (December 2019)

Infection control

• Unmasking leading to a healthcare worker Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission (May 09, 2018)

Diagnosis

• Novel lipoarabinomannan point-of-care tuberculosis test for people with HIV: a diagnostic accuracy study (2019 Aug)
• Official American Thoracic Society/Infectious Diseases Society of America/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Clinical Practice Guidelines: Diagnosis of Tuberculosis in Adults and Children (2017 Jan)

Treatment

• Origins of Combination Therapy for Tuberculosis: Lessons for Future Antimicrobial Development and Application (Mar 2017)
• Cutaneous tuberculosis overview and current treatment regimens. (2015 Dec 1).

Drug-resistant Tuberculosis

• Treatment of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis. An Official ATS/CDC/ERS/IDSA Clinical Practice Guideline (Nov 15, 2019)