Diseases of Concern Tuberculosis

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Introduction

  • Tuberculosis is considered one of the worlds deadliest diseases
  • An estimation of 8.7 million new cases of TB in 2011
  • Con-infection with HIV is 13%
  • 1.4 million deaths contributed to TB
  • Almost 1 million of non HIV infected patients and 430,00 HIV infected patients died
  • Over 500,000 deaths are women whom are both HIV positive and negative [1][2]



 

 

 

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