Radiological Follow-up of Pulmonary Tuberculosis
Journal Title: Journal of Medical Sciences - Year 2016, Vol 19, Issue 1
Abstract
Tuberculosis is a global health problem and is the second leading infectious cause of death, after human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). In 2014, there were an estimated 9.6 million incident cases of TB (range, 9.1 million–10.0 million) globally, equivalent to 133 cases per 100 000 population 1 . Most of the estimated number of cases in 2014 occurred in Asia (58%) and the African Region (28%). The six countries that stood out as having the largest number of incident cases in 2014 were India, Indonesia, China, Nigeria, Pakistan and South Africa. There were an estimated 1.5 million TB deaths in 2014 , 1.1 million among HIV-negative people and 390 000 among HIV- positive people 1 . These numbers show the importance of tuberculosis as a community health problem especially in our part of the world despite the leaps and bounds with which medicine has progressed our the past century. Furthermore, this issue itself has two articles related to tuberculosis by Koul et al and Rangrez et al highlighting the fact that there still is a lot that we have to learn about TB.
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Tariq Gojwari
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