Items tagged with TB epidemiology
India to release results of nationwide TB survey by year-end (post)
India, which has the world's largest number of tuberculosis patients, plans to release the results of its first-ever survey mapping the prevalence of drug-resistant TB by December, two senior government officials said.
Tuberculosis risk among medical trainees in Pune, India (post)
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CDC: TB incidence has plateaued in U.S. after 20-year decline (post)
Tuberculosis (TB) incidence in the United States has leveled off after declining annually for 20 years, according to a new report published in the March 25 issue of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. The report highlights the need for intensified eradication efforts in the United States and globally, with increased emphasis on improving systems for identifying and treating latent TB infection and interrupting TB transmission in the United States, as well as reducing the incidence of TB globally.
The burden of drug-resistant tuberculosis in Papua New Guinea: Results of a large population-based survey (post)
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Outbreak of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis on Daru Island (post)
The growing crisis of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is so serious that tuberculosis specialists have called it a “time bomb”,1 and multiple deadly explosions have already been reported globally.2 On Daru Island in Papua New Guinea, an unprecedented outbreak of MDR-TB is occurring.3
ECDC report: Molecular typing for surveillance of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in the EU/EEA (post)
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India lacks detailed epidemiological data on TB despite having largest number of patients (post)
Even as India has the highest tuberculosis burden in the world, accounting for nearly one-fourth of the global incidence, experts advocate that there is a need to have epidemiological data on TB through a nationwide surveillance as was done in China a few years ago.
Nigeria ranks 2nd & 3rd in AIDS & tuberculosis worldwide (post)
With 574,600 cases or 338 per 100,000 of the 170 million population, Nigeria has the third highest TB burden in the world. Worse even, 22% of the TB patients also carry the HIV virus that causes AIDS.
Recent transmission of tuberculosis — United States, 2011–2014 (post)
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Radio story about MDR-TB outbreak in Papua New Guinea (post)
Listen to a radio coverage from journalist and multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) survivor Jo Chandler about the terrible MDR-TB epidemic raging in Papua New Guinea.
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