Items tagged with TB epidemiology
Roots of prevalent strain of tuberculosis traced to Han Chinese migration 30,000 years ago (post)
A strain of tuberculosis known as the Beijing family has had its roots traced back some 30,000 years ago to pinpoint where it started and how it expanded.
Has tuberculosis contributed to the global rates of cystic fibrosis? (post)
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is not a disease new to modern history. It is speculated that people have died from the disease for hundreds if not thousands of years. If cystic fibrosis, which is terminal in the majority of patients, is in fact thousands of years old, how then has it persisted and even thrived for hundreds of generations rather than subsiding out over time?
Kenya: Ministry of health to conduct first tuberculosis prevalence survey (post)
Kenya’s ministry of health is set to conduct the first tuberculosis (TB) prevalence survey since its independence in 1963.
Pakistan ranks 6th among high TB affected countries (post)
Pakistan ranks sixth among the 22 high tuberculosis affected countries, and has 43 per cent share of its patients in the Eastern-Mediterranean region of World Health Organization (WHO).
What South Africa's youth are dying from (post)
Tuberculosis was the leading cause of death for Black and Indian youth in 2013, ischaemic heart diseases for the White group, and the HIV virus for the Coloured population.
Estimating the impact of reducing under-nutrition on the tuberculosis epidemic in the Central Eastern states of India: a dynamic modeling study (post)
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In the age of travel, tuberculosis knows no borders (post)
The recent episode of an air passenger who travelled from India to the United States, while suffering from extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB*), has raised a public health scare. The passenger, after landing in Chicago, travelled by car to visit relatives in three states before seeking medical care and being diagnosed with XDR-TB. She has been isolated and is currently on treatment at the US National Institutes of Health. Public health officials are now working to locate everyone who has possibly been exposed to the infection, including fellow air passengers.
Mumbai: TB again top killer disease, lifestyle ailments not far behind (post)
MUMBAI: Tuberculosis, hypertension and diabetes have emerged among the top killers of 2014-15, showing how maximum city is at the receiving end of both infectious and lifestyle diseases. Additionally, the 'State of Health of Mumbai' report released by NGO Praja Foundation on Tuesday, showed that a significant number of people from productive age-groups have died of absolutely treatable and preventable diseases.
Whole genome sequencing shows a low proportion of tuberculosis disease is attributable to known close contacts in rural Malawi (post)
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Localized transmission significantly drives MDR-TB epidemic in Peru (post)
Local “hot spots” of increased risk appeared to play a key role in disease transmission during a multidrug-resistant tuberculosis epidemic in Lima, Peru, according to recent data.
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