Tuberculosis (TB) is caused by a bacterium called Mycobacterium tuberculosis.The bacteria usually attack the lungs, but TB bacteria can attack any part of the body such as the kidney, spine, and brain ...

March 24 is observed every year as World Tuberculosis Day. Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease that can infect people, irrespective of their age and gender. There is a lack of sensitivity and ...

Tuberculosis (TB) remains the world's leading cause of death from a single infectious agent. A new study recently published ...

Recent rates of active respiratory tuberculosis (TB) in the United States are suggested to reflect immigration patterns from ...

Tuberculosis is a very contagious disease that mostly affects your lungs. Kids are very vulnerable to this infection and can be infected without showing any symptoms. After being exposed to the ...

Tuberculosis stands second to AIDS as the world’s deadliest infectious disease, killing about 1.5 million people in 2014. Only a small percentage of those deaths took place in the United States, yet ...

• Each year, 10 million people worldwide contract tuberculosis and 1.5 million people die from TB, according to the World Health Organization. • But COVID-19 is far more prevalent in the United States ...

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NIGERIAN Teaching Hospitals are not properly equipped to handle cases of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB), and as a result, the disease is fast becoming an epidemic in Nigeria, says President ...

*Expected case counts are derived from ratios (i.e., regression slopes on log-transformed observed counts). Because the sum of ratios is not the ratio of the sums, expected case counts stratified on ...