[Conventional and molecular diagnosis in a group of patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis].

Worldwide, although the incidence of the sensitive/susceptible tuberculosis diminished, the number of drug resistant tuberculosis is growing. The bacteriological diagnosis, genetic and phenotypic, becomes essential for the epidemic control. The resistance appears as a phenotypic expression of mutations from M.

[Tuberculosis in Romania. Problems and solutions].

Unlabelled: The analysis of the Management Unit of the National TB Programme (NTP) database, together with the reports of the TB county managers, allowed to the authors to identify some weaknesses of TB control in Romania in the recent years and to propose the appropriate measures.

Problems: The marked decrease in the reduction of TB cases reported annually from 2,761 in 2005-2006, to 145 in 2007-2008 and the stagnation of mortality rate: 7.5 per ten thousand in 2007 and 7.