Erschienen in:
01.06.2014 | Minisymposium
Partnering to solve the problem of tuberculosis
verfasst von:
Bernard F. Laya, Amanda Dehaye
Erschienen in:
Pediatric Radiology
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Ausgabe 6/2014
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Excerpt
Tuberculosis (TB) is a major global health problem and the burden remains enormous. In 2012, an estimated 8.6 million people developed TB (13% with human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] co-infection) and 1.3 million died from the disease [
1]. Most cases were in the Southeast Asia, Africa and Western Pacific regions [
1]. About 3.6% of newly diagnosed TB cases and 20% of people previously treated for TB have multidrug-resistant TB [
1]. Among children younger than 15 years, there were an estimated 530,000 TB cases and 74,000 TB deaths in 2012 [
1]. …