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Network of the Country Tuberculosis Portals Alexander Rosenthal, M.S., M.B.A.
Chief Technology Officer, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, alexr@niaid.nih.gov

Tuberculosis (TB) is a major global public health. The recent escalation of the occurrence of the disease has been complicated due to the appearance and development of multiresistant tuberculosis (MDR TB) or extensively drugresistant tuberculosis (XDR TB), as well as HIV/TB coinfection. The needs for fast, precise diagnostics of resistant TB and new efficient antiTB drugs are calling for integral approach and multicenter, multicountry collaborations. The ability for the worldwide community of TB researchers to understand the nature of the TB disease will be greatly improved by using a common database containing anonymized medical images, treatment information, lab work, clinical data, and bacterial genomes. Value of such database would be further increased if it contained unique patient cohorts, molecular information on coexistence of multiple Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains, and tools for genomic and bioimaging analysis. The scope of the Network of the Country Tuberculosis Portals initiative is to maintain the network of openaccess tuberculosis centers that use common database architectures, user interfaces, programmatic solutions, medical and scientific nomenclature. This unified approach can facilitate adherence to the treatment protocols, serve as a consistent repository of records and present a rich source for tuberculosisrelated data mining and epidemiological studies.