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BMC Public Health BioMed Central Research article Open Access A systematic review of delay in the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis 1,2 1 1 Dag Gundersen Storla* , Solomon Yimer and Gunnar Aksel Bjune Address: 1Department of International Health, Institute of General Practice and Community Medicine, University of Oslo, PO Box 1130 Blindern, N-0318 Oslo, Norway and 2Competence Centre for Imported and Tropical Diseases, Ullevål University Hospital, Oslo, Norway Email: Dag Gundersen Storla* - dgstorla@online.no; Solomon Yimer - yimsolo@; Gunnar Aksel Bjune - g.a.bjune@samfunnsmed.uio.no * Corresponding author Published: 14 January 2008 Received: 26 July 2007 Accepted: 14 January 2008 BMC Public Health 2008, 8:15 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-8-15 This article is available from: /1471-2458/8/15 © 2008 Storla et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Early diagnosis and immediate initiation of treatment are essential for an effective tuberculosis (TB) control program. Delay in diagnosis is significant to both disease prognosis at the individual level and transmission within the community. Most transmissions occur between the