tuberculosis nowadays
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- Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the oldest diseases of our planet; today, it still is a serious medicosocial problem in both developing and developed countries.
- Tuberculosis (TB) in elephants has the potential to infect humans and is an increasing public health concern.
- One of the greatest challenges facing post-apartheid South Africa is the control of the concomitant HIV and tuberculosis epidemics.
- The rising co-epidemic of tuberculosis (TB) and diabetes mellitus (DM) is a challenge for constrained health systems in low and middle-income countries.
- The question of the communicability of pulmonary tuberculosis, consumption of the lungs or pulmonary phthisis, has long passed the boundary of discussion with the great mass of the medical profession.
- Diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) in infants is challenging due to non-specific clinical presentations of the disease in this age-group and low sensitivity of widely available TB diagnostic tools, which in turn delays prompt access to TB treatment.
- Tbm (Tuberculous meningitis) is severe form of tuberculosis causing death of one third of the affected individuals or leaving two-third of the survivors disabled.
- Poor treatment adherence leading to risk of drug resistance, treatment failure, relapse, death and persistent infectiousness remains an impediment to the tuberculosis control programmes.
- one time operative surgery played a major role in the treatment of atients with pulmonary tuberculosis; however, nowadays in most develped countries tuberculosis is thought of as a disease of the past, due to he introduction of effective chemotherapy decades ago.