Items tagged with TB epidemiology
TB recurrence increases by nearly ninefold between episodes 2 and 5 (post)
Rates of tuberculosis recurrence increased by almost ninefold between episode 2 and 5 regardless of HIV status, according to a study assessing recurrent tuberculosis in Cape Town, South Africa, over a 13-year period.
TB in women in Ethiopia associated with HIV infection and aging (post)
Tuberculosis among pregnant women in Ethiopia independently correlated with HIV infection and increasing age, which suggests that young women in the country are continuously exposed to, and infected with, contagious TB, according to findings in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
TB spread from animals to humans greater than previously thought (post)
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The number of human tuberculosis (TB) cases that are due to transmission from animals, as opposed to human-to-human transmission, may be much higher than previously estimated, according to an international team of researchers. The results could have implications for epidemiological studies and public health interventions.
Black Africans living with HIV in UK have especially high rates of TB (post)
The rate of new active tuberculosis (TB) diagnoses among people living with HIV in the UK is disproportionately high among people of black African ethnicity, investigators report in the online edition of AIDS.
India notifies 24.04 lakh TB cases, 79,144 deaths in 2019: Annual report (post)
Around 24.04 lakh TB patients were notified in 2019, registering 14 per cent increase over the previous year while the private sector saw an increase of around 35 per cent with 6.78 lakh tuberculosis patients notified, officials said. Launching the annual report, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan commended the collective efforts of all involved in the task, and said the government was committed to eliminating tuberculosis from the country by 2025, five years ahead of the global target.
TB cases and deaths predicted to spike due to COVID-19 (post)
Study estimates at least 110,000 additional deaths from TB in China, India and South Africa unless health services maintained and strengthened.
HIV, TB associated with increased COVID-19 mortality in South African study (post)
HIV and tuberculosis were independently associated with an increased risk for COVID-19 mortality in a South African study that included more than 22,000 patients with the new disease, researchers reported in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
ECDC: Tuberculosis - Annual epidemiological report for 2018 (post)
For 2018, 30 countries in the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) reported a total of 52 862 tuberculosis (TB) cases (10.2 per 100 000 population).
DNA from a mummified bishop’s lungs shows TB infected humans only recently (post)
Bishop Peder Winstrup died in what is now Sweden in 1679 CE, when tuberculosis (TB) was ravaging Europe. His body was placed in a cool, dry crypt, and lay untouched for nearly 250 years. When the crypt was first opened in 1923, scientists were surprised to discover that Bishop Winstrup had become mummified, with his clothes and hair perfectly intact. Now, researchers have used his well-preserved lungs, damaged by TB, to understand when this deadly disease began infecting humans.
HIV, TB tests fall in East Europe and Central Asia due to COVID-19 (post)
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Testing for HIV and tuberculosis has fallen in Eastern Europe and Central Asia during the coronavirus pandemic and could lead to higher mortality rates, a U.N. special envoy for AIDS said on Wednesday.
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