[Improving tuberculosis diagnosis: rational use of health care resources]

Tuberculosis is a common and frequently-occurring clinical disease, but its clinical manifestations are not specific. Only by adhering to the guidance of relevant consensus and/or guidelines, making full and reasonably utilizing of the effective clinical resources, paying more attention to the incidence and clinical characteristics of tuberculosis, and by properly using auxiliary examination means, and fully and correctly mastering the diagnostic criteria of tuberculosis, can we have ability to avoid misdiagnosis and missed diagnosis of clinical tuberculosis, especially atypical tuberculosis, and improve the diagnosis level of tuberculosis, so as to achieve the goal of terminating tuberculosis as soon as possible, and to benefit human health.