Guías consolidadas

The target audience for these guidelines includes laboratory managers, clinicians and other health care staff, HIV and TB programme managers, policy-makers, technical agencies, donors and implementing partners supporting the use of TB diagnostics in resource-limited settings.

Individuals responsible for programme planning, budgeting, mobilizing resources and implementing training activities for the programmatic management of DR-TB may also find this document useful.

This document provides background, justification and recommendations on novel diagnostic tools for detecting MTBC and the presence or absence of mutations in target genes proven to be associated with anti-TB drug resistance.