Diagnosis, treatment of TB: state lab is partner.
Between 1992 and 1995, there was a 14.5 percent decline in the number of TB cases reported annually in the United States and a 10.3 percent decline in Pennsylvania. The CDC credits improved laboratory methods to allow prompt identification of M. tuberculosis and the broader use of drug-susceptibility testing among the factors responsible for the decline.
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Bureau of Laboratories, Pennsylvania Department of Health, Lionville, USA.
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D019411:Clinical Laboratory Techniques / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D010414:Pennsylvania; D011322:Primary Prevention; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy