title: Complete republication: Epidemiology of tuberculosis in the EU/EEA in 2010 - Monitoring the progress towards tuberculosis elimination.
abstract: The 2012 combined tuberculosis (TB) surveillance and monitoring report for the European Union and European Economic Area identifies a mean annual decline in TB notification rate by 4.4% from 2006 to 2010. Culture confirmation for new pulmonary cases and drug susceptibility testing have increased to 65.6% and 70.8%, but remain under their targets of 80% and 100%, respectively. Reporting of treatment outcome and coinfection with human immunodeficiency virus also remain suboptimal. Strengthened control practices are needed to allow progress towards TB elimination.
authors.affiliation: 1European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) Stockholm Andreas.Sandgren@ecdc.europa.eu Sweden.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sandgren
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Hollo
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Huitric
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ködmön
keywords: tuberculosis, population surveillance, bacterial, epidemiology, disease notification, drug resistance. European Union, humans