Items tagged with TB epidemiology
41,000 TB cases not detected annually in Uganda (post)
Kampala, 8 September 2016 — Tuberculosis (TB) prevalence in Uganda has increased from the estimated 159 per 100,000 last year to the current 258 people, according a joint survey carried out by the Ministry of Health, Global Fund and the World Health Organisation.
Twenty years of global surveillance of antituberculosis drug resistance (post)
The development of drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis was first documented in the late 1940s, soon after antibiotic therapy was introduced for tuberculosis treatment.It quickly became obvious that combination chemotherapy could prevent the emergence of drug resistance and that patients infected with drug-resistant strains were less likely to be cured.Nevertheless, it was only in the early 1990s that drug-resistant tuberculosis began to receive global attention as a public health threat. This coincided with the detection of outbreaks of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (defined as resistance to at least rifampin and isoniazid) that were associated with high mortality among patients coinfected with HIV. The urgent need for a global mechanism to monitor the emergence and spread of resistance to antituberculosis drugs became clear.
New TB report shows continuing decline in cases in England (post)
New 2015 data shows evidence of positive start to the early implementation of the TB Strategy with cases down by a third since 2011 peak.
Prevalence of latent TB among health care workers in high burden countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis (post)
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‘True scale’ of India’s TB problem: 2.8 million new cases (post)
NEW DELHI — Finally coming to terms with the enormity of its tuberculosis problem, is preparing a radical overhaul and expansion of its national treatment program to fight an affliction that kills more adults worldwide than any other infectious disease.
Incidence of TB among school-going adolescents in South India (post)
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Drug susceptibility profiles of pulmonary Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from patients in informal urban settlements in Nairobi, Kenya (post)
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South Africa trails BRICS partners in battle against TB (post)
The World Health Organisation’s 2016 TB report, released last week, has revealed that despite a decrease in the numbers of infection rate over the years, South Africa still has the highest number of estimated TB incidences per 100 000 people.
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