Cases of pulmonary TB without a chest radiograph result ... and pulmonary only disease which was further divided into non-cavitary pulmonary disease and cavitary pulmonary disease.

This large case series illustrates several features of adolescent TB. First, most patients were identified after presenting with symptoms. Second, the rates of extrathoracic TB were high ...

When German biologist and doctor Robert Koch announced in 1882 that he had discovered the bacterial cause of tuberculosis, he said, "If the number of victims which a disease claims is the measure ...

WHO experts have annually brought attention to the poor quality of care for children at risk of developing active ...

(Photo by Nancy Nanyonga) Burden of disease Health ministry General of Health Services director Dr Henry Mwebesa says more than 90,000 Ugandans fall ill with TB every year in Uganda. Last year ...

The county Tuberculosis Control Program on Thursday was tracking the unrelated cases of tuberculosis, including at a ...

How do we correct this? The first End TB Strategy milestones for reductions in TB disease should guide what needs to be done. This includes 20 per cent reduction in 2015 TB incidence rates ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is a confounding scourge. It's the leading cause of death from infectious disease in the world, and yet it's estimated that those deaths represent perhaps 5% of infections with ...

Tuberculosis remains a critical public health issue in many countries and is a leading cause of death in South Africa. Over the past six years, the BEAT Tuberculosis study, conducted in South ...

The number of U.S. tuberculosis cases in 2023 was the highest in a decade, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has announced. The CDC said on its website Thursday that "overall ...

But the World Health Organization's (WHO's) Global Tuberculosis Report, external paints a different picture - every two minutes, one person dies of the disease in India. According to the report ...

Before war in the twentieth century, disease was the number one killer ... 77,335 cases and 19,971 deaths. Tuberculosis killed 6,946 out of the 29,510 infected. America was an agricultural nation.