title: [International Standards of Tuberculosis Care (ISTC)--comments from the German point of view].
abstract: The "International Standards for Tuberculosis Care" (ISTC) were developed by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and others to provide internationally agreed and, if possible, evidence-based standards for tuberculosis care including the care by private providers who are not part of national tuberculosis programmes or health-care systems. Hence, the ISTC primarily address resource-restrained countries with high tuberculosis prevalence. In this article, the German translation of the 21 standards from 2009 is presented - addressing diagnostic and therapeutic standards, co-infection (especially with HIV) and public-health issues. The accompanying comments show how these standards have to be modified for Germany due to the medical resources available here and country-specific characteristics respectively.
authors.affiliation: Deutsches Zentralkomitee zur Bekämpfung der Tuberkulose, Stralauer Platz 34, Berlin. scastell@dzk-tuberkulose.de
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Castell
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Bauer
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Diel
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hedrich
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Magdorf
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rüsch-Gerdes
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Schaberg
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Loddenkemper
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D005858:Germany; D038622:Internationality; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D015272:Pulmonary Medicine / Q000592:standards; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000628:therapy