Items tagged with TB epidemiology
Where are the missing TB patients in Tanzania? (post)
A lot of efforts are done by the National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Programme (NTLP) under the ministry of health and other partners to control TB in Tanzania. Yet, TB remains a major problem and Tanzania is among 30 highly burdened countries globally with TB and TB/HIV co-infection.
Evidence of TB-like infection found in 245-million-year-old marine reptile (post)
A team of researchers from Poland and the U.S. has found possible evidence of tuberculosis in a 245-million-year-old marine reptile. In their paper published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, the group describes their study of the fossilized remains of a Proneusticosaurus silesiacus specimen and why they believe the creature had a TB-like disease.
Nigeria needs N14.4b to control TB as 420 die daily (post)
The Coordinator, National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control Programme, Dr. Adebola Lawanson, yesterday (June 4) disclosed in Abuja that 420 Nigerians die everyday due to tuberculosis.
Indonesia hosts 17 percent of missing TB cases worldwide (post)
Indonesia hosts 17 percent of the missing—undiagnosed and diagnosed but not reported—TB cases worldwide.
New TB cases occur rapidly among close contacts of people with pulmonary TB (post)
The close contacts of people with active pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) have high rates of the disease, according to US and Canadian research published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases. Almost one in twenty close contacts contracted TB, with three-quarters of diagnoses made within three months of the diagnosis of the index patient.
Sequencing studies show how TB moved with humans, adapted to treatments (post)
ATLANTA, Jun 12, 2018 – The bacterium that causes tuberculosis has an intertwined relationship with humans, according to new sequencing studies.
How many people die from TB every year? (post)
A study explores why the global estimates for tuberculosis mortality differ according to the institution that provides them
Revisiting the timetable of tuberculosis (post)
Tuberculosis has a much shorter incubation period than is widely thought, say Marcel A Behr and colleagues, and this has implications for prioritising research and public health strategies.
New method may allow country-level real-time surveillance of drug-resistant TB (post)
Global tuberculosis control and elimination will require detailed real-time information on the location of individuals with the disease, the presence of drug resistance, and the patterns of transmission. The surveys currently used are only conducted periodically and are not sufficient to effectively control tuberculosis, which causes more than 4,500 deaths daily. In August in PLOS Medicine, Karen Jacobson, from the Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center, and colleagues, describe a new technique for linking samples submitted for tuberculosis testing to the individuals who provided the samples and the location from where they were submitted, in a way that can provide the continuous national surveillance necessary for eradicating tuberculosis and drug-resistant tuberculosis.
WHO: 18 Nigerians die every hour from TB (post)
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has revealed that with 18 persons dying every hour from tuberculosis in Nigeria, the country now has the second highest burden of the disease in Africa, and the seven highest globally.
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