Doing the right thing for tuberculosis control in the Torres Strait Islands

• 1 Queensland Tuberculosis Control Centre, Queensland Health, Brisbane, QLD.
• 2 Thoracic Medicine and Regional TB Control Unit, Cairns Base Hospital, Cairns, QLD.
• 3 Sydney Institute for Emerging Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW.

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