Abstract:

Tuberculosis（TB）is still a threat to the health of public and remains a public health problem. In recent years，continues progresses had been made in public health，diagnosis and treatment，and in fundamen⁃ tal research of tuberculosis. All these progresses promoted the improvement of health care of tuberculosis patient. In this literature，analysis and comments were made on several studies that closely related with clinical practice， especially underlined the significance of each study for the health care. We confidently believe that all the small progresses in different areas would enhance the understanding of the bacilli and the disease，and then inevitably promote the disease control，patient management and patient health care of tuberculosis.

Key words:

tuberculosis, drug ? resistant, mycobacterium tuberculosis, latent infection, non ? tuberculosis mycobacteria