2007年4月,日本将《结核预防法》并入《感染症法》,从此开始实施修订后的《感染症法》,以此来作为防治结核病的对策。修订后的法案将结核病进行重新分类,即将无症状结核菌携带者中有必要成为医疗对象的患者分离出来,并将其归类为“潜在性结核感染性疾病”;另外,修订法案还调整 In April 2007, Japan incorporated the Tuberculosis Prevention Act into the Law on Infectious Diseases. From then on, it began implementing the amended Law on Infectious Diseases as a countermeasure against tuberculosis. The revised act reclassifies tuberculosis by separating the asymptomatic M. tuberculosis carriers from patients who need to become medical objects and classifying them as “potential tuberculosis infectious diseases”;