TY - JOUR T1 - An overview on tuberculosis-specific hospitals in China in 2009: results of a national survey JF - European Respiratory Journal JO - Eur Respir J SP - 1584 LP - 1587 DO - 10.1183/13993003.01854-2015 VL - 47 IS - 5 AU - Yu Pang AU - Jian Du AU - Zhi Zhen Qin AU - Zoë Greenwald AU - Yuhong Liu AU - Fengling Mi AU - Yanlin Zhao AU - Liang Li Y1 - 2016/05/01 UR - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/47/5/1584.abstract N2 - As of 2014, tuberculosis (TB) was the deadliest infectious disease worldwide and China has the third-highest TB burden [1]. In that year alone there were 826 155 new cases in China [1]. In addition, China has been experiencing a serious epidemic of drug-resistant TB [2, 3].TB hospitals are critical for control of DR-TB, hence strengthened collaboration with public health systems is needed http://ow.ly/YnikYWe are grateful to all the local participants for their help throughout this survey. The authors are grateful to Jacob Creswell, Team Leader at TB REACH, Stop TB Partnerships, Geneva, Switzerland, for his critical review. ER -