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Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis: A Global Challenge

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It is estimated that more than one-third of the world’s population harbor tuberculosis (predominantly latent infection), and the number of new cases continue to grow with almost 10,000,000 in 2010 [1]. Already 36 million people have been treated since the World Health Organization’s (WHO) strategy for tuberculosis (TB) control in 1995. There is an inequitable global distribution of the disease with 22 high-burden countries accounting for 80 % of active TB cases in the world, and more than one-third in India and China [2]. Many of these countries have social, economic problems with overcrowding, high rates of poverty and unemployment, and inadequate social and healthcare infrastructures. Although Western developed Nations have to a large degree held tuberculosis in check for the past 50 years, due to effective public health systems, there is a real danger of increase due to the emergence of multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) and the ever expanding immigration from high-burden countries.

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Fong, I.W. (2013). Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis: A Global Challenge. In: Fong, I. (eds) Challenges in Infectious Diseases. Emerging Infectious Diseases of the 21st Century. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4496-1_3

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