Items tagged with TB epidemiology
The prevalence of tuberculosis in Zambia: Results from the first national TB prevalence survey, 2013–2014 (post)
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India: Surge in drug-resistant TB cases across Maharashtra (post)
PUNE: Maharashtra recorded 779 cases of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB), the world's most untreatable form of TB, in 2015 - the highest figure recorded in last five years.
60,000 Nigerian children get infected with TB annually (post)
January 28, 2016 - Partnership Nigeria, an NGO, said on Thursday in Abuja that out of the 600,000 cases of tuberculosis recorded annually in Nigeria, children accounted for 60,000.
Tuberculosis, Fiji, 2002–2013 (post)
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Tuberculosis rates, deaths steadily decline in Kazakhstan (post)
The Ministry of Health and Social Development of the Kazakhstan recently announced that there has been steady progress made in decreasing tuberculosis (TB) mortality and incidence rates throughout the last decade.
US tuberculosis cases drop almost 20 percent among foreign-born entrants from 2007-2011 (post)
The reasons behind a 19% drop in US tuberculosis (TB) cases among foreign-born people between 2007-2011 vary depending on the person's country of origin and when they entered the U.S., according to a study published February 10, 2016 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Dr. Brian Baker from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and colleagues.
Direct transmission seems to drive XDR-TB (post)
BOSTON, February 28 -- A person-by-person tracing process pinpointed transmission of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) to households and hospitals, researchers reported here.
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