Global funding for infectious diseases: TB or not TB?

用于感染性疾病的全球：结核病还是不是结核病？

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If TB bacteria are found in the sputum, the diagnosis of TB can be made in a day or two, but this finding will not be able to distinguish between drug-susceptible and drug-resistant TB.

如果在痰中发现结核细菌，在一两天内即可作出诊断，但是这一结果不能区分对药物敏感结核与耐药结核。

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Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, or XDR-TB, will not respond to any of those drugs but might still be treatable.

VOA: special.2009.03.25

Multidrug resistant tuberculosis,or MDR-TB, will not get better with antibiotics normally used for tuberculosis.

VOA: special.2009.03.25

But it said evidence revealed the general UK population was not at increased risk of TB, HIV or malaria infection from migrants, but some UK-born ethnic communities did have a higher risk of disease because of their links to countries where the diseases were endemic.

BBC: NEWS | Health | Migrants 'carry disease burden'

Vaccination is not effective in badgers or cattle that are infected with TB.

BBC: Q&A: The badger cull

Dr Gerard said that although his department at Gatwick regularly screened immigrants and asylum seekers for TB that they had not so far encountered any of the rarer illnesses such as Ebola or Lassa Fever, but he said they were alert to the threat.

BBC: GPs warned to be ready for smallpox