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- Tuberculosis - World Health Organization (WHO)
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by bacteria that most often affects the lungs It spreads through the air when people with TB cough, sneeze or spit Tuberculosis is preventable and curable About a quarter of the global population is estimated to have been infected with TB bacteria
- Tuberculosis - World Health Organization (WHO)
Tuberculosis is mostly curable but without proper treatment about two thirds of people who get TB will die Since 2000, about 79 million lives have been saved through effective diagnosis and treatment Most people who have TB disease can be cured with a course of 4 antimicrobials lasting 6 months, or even 4 months in some cases
- Tuberculosis - World Health Organization (WHO)
Tuberculosis (TB) is the world’s top infectious killer Nearly 4500 people lose their lives and 30 000 people fall ill with TB each day TB is contagious and airborne It is caused by bacteria (Mycobacterium tuberculosis) that most often affect the lungs TB is spread from person to person through the air When people with lung TB cough, sneeze or spit, they propel TB germs into the air A
- Tuberculosis - World Health Organization (WHO)
En 2023, 1,25 millones de personas murieron de tuberculosis, incluidas 161 000 personas con infección por el VIH Probablemente, la tuberculosis vuelve a ser la principal causa de muertes en el mundo provocadas por un patógeno infeccioso, tras tres años en los que lo fue la COVID-19
- Tuberculosis in the WHO European Region - World Health Organization (WHO)
Tuberculosis (TB) is a contagious disease that spreads through airborne droplets when an infected person coughs, sneezes or breathes About one third of the world’s population carries a latent TB infection, and around 10% of these people will develop active TB in their lifetime Symptoms vary depending on the affected body part
- 10 facts on tuberculosis - World Health Organization (WHO)
About one quarter of the world’s population is infected with tuberculosis (TB) bacteria Only a small proportion of those infected will become sick with TB People with weakened immune systems have a much greater risk of falling ill from TB A person living with HIV is about 20 times more likely to develop active TB
- 1. 1 TB incidence - World Health Organization (WHO)
The estimated increases in TB incidence in 2021–2023 are the consequence of disruptions to TB diagnosis and treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic, when the reported number of people newly diagnosed with TB fell from 7 1 million in 2019 to 5 8 million in 2020 and 6 4 million in 2021 (Section 2 1)
- WHO TB guidelines: recent updates - World Health Organization (WHO)
In June 2021, WHO released a catalogue of Mycobacterium tuberculosis mutations as a reference standard for the interpretation of mutations conferring resistance to all first-line and a variety of second-line TB drugs (5) The report summarises the analysis of over 38,000 isolates with matched data on whole genome sequencing and phenotypic drug
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