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1 says Philip LoBue, MD, associate director for science in the CDC's Division of Tuberculosis Elimination.

National Genotyping Service Division of Tuberculosis Elimination [cited 2009 Feb 18].

With extensively resistant TB, the patient can lose lung tissue and need surgery, pushing the cost of treatment up to $1 million, with no guarantee of survival, said Kenneth Castro, director of the Centers for Disease Control's Division of Tuberculosis Elimination.

Curry National Tuberculosis Center, one of four regional training and medical consultation centers for tuberculosis in the United States funded by the CDC's Division of Tuberculosis Elimination.

From the Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Ga; Denver Public Health, Denver, Colo; the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Baltimore; the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Jamaica Plain; the Mississippi State Department of Health, Jackson; the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, Trenton; and the New Jersey Medical School National Tuberculosis Center, Newark.

Castro, director of the Division of Tuberculosis Elimination at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta.

Donald Kopanoff, the CDC's associate director, Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, says that despite efforts to prevent it, most new TB cases are among poor minorities.

Dr Cain is the team leader for TB/HIV in the International Research and Programs Branch of the Division of Tuberculosis Elimination at CDC.