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Slide 151 Interventions for Tuberculosis Control and Elimination
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A preventive therapy regimen of sufficiently long duration has thus established efficacy. However, already in the clinical trials it was apparent that adherence considerably influenced "efficacy".

The effectiveness of preventive therapy must thustake into account the probability of infection with M tuberculosis given a certain tuberculin skin test result, the risk of tuberculosis among infected persons, the regimen efficacy, and adherence to treatment.

   
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