Items tagged with TB epidemiology
Pediatric TB in Italian children: epidemiological and clinical data from the Italian register of pediatric TB (post)
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Prevalence of pulmonary TB in western China in 2010–11: a population-based, cross-sectional survey (post)
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Revealing the global burden of drug-resistant tuberculosis in children (post)
-- At least 67 million children are infected by Mycobacterium tuberculosis
-- TB in children is increasingly recognised as a significant public health problem
Madagascar: The vulnerability to tuberculosis (post)
Despite a major commitment to universal healthcare, the government is heavily reliant on external funding and donors.
Was tuberculosis born out of fire? (post)
Many thousands of years ago, on a chilly African night, a group of people gather around a fire in a cave. Using the flames, they cook their food, fashion new weapons, and warm themselves. But where there’s fire, there’s also smoke, and the smoke is giving the huddled humans a wretched cough. And in their inflamed airways, a microbe that normally lives in the soil is taking hold, changing, evolving into something new.
HIV not a super-spreader of drug-resistant TB (post)
While the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) pandemic fuels tuberculosis (TB) outbreaks, it does not drive the development and transmission of multidrug-resistance in TB patients as previously suspected, according to a study published in eLife.
Why Russian TB is the most infectious (post)
Biologists have provided a possible explanation for the epidemiological ‘success’ of tuberculosis strains that are common in Russia and the countries of the former Soviet Union
Number of TB cases in India is double current estimates, says new study (post)
The number of cases of tuberculosis (TB) in India may be up to two to three times higher than current estimates, suggests a new study.
5% of Chennai TB patients’ kin found infected (post)
CHENNAI: Living with someone who is infected with tuberculosis can push up the risk of infection by more than two times, a study by National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis has found.
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