1. Servicio de Medicina Interna, Complejo Hospitalario La Paz- Cantoblanco-Carlos III, Madrid, España;2. Unidad de Tuberculosis, Complejo Hospitalario La Paz- Cantoblanco-Carlos III, Madrid, España
Abstract:
The purpose of tuberculosis treatment is twofold: to provide an individual benefit centred on healing the patient with TB, and to provide a collective benefit to the community in which the patient resides. The different treatment regimens for tuberculosis sensitive to first-line antituberculosis drugs as well as resistant tuberculosis are examined and the peculiarities in the management of pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis are discussed.