Sentences with phrase «of tuberculosis cases»

Researchers in Norway analyzed more than a decade's worth of tuberculosis cases and found that infected immigrants pose little risk of spreading the disease to the general population.

In some parts of the world, as many as 50 % of tuberculosis cases are resistant to these drugs2.

The model estimates that cases of both forms of drug - resistant disease will increase, suggesting that almost a third of tuberculosis cases in Russia (32.5 %) would be multidrug - resistant by 2040, as well as 12.4 % of tuberculosis cases in India, 8.9 % in the Philippines, and 5.7 % in South Africa.

The team analysed drug sales data to show that the actual number of tuberculosis cases in India may be vastly under - reported, primarily because many people opt for treatment from private healthcare providers, who usually fail to report tuberculosis cases to public health officials.

The number of tuberculosis cases in New York City suddenly jumped by 10 percent last year — the largest increase since 1992, according to the Health Department.

Not exact matches

What it does: This bacteria is most notorious for causing severe illnesses such as tuberculosis, leprosy, and Hansen's disease, though most species of mycobacteria in nature are benign in humans, unless in cases of those who have weakened immune systems.

The Kano state Commissioner for Health, Dr Kabiru Getso has said that the state had recorded over 7,000 cases of Tuberculosis with 21 deaths...

One thousand seven hundred and sixty - three tuberculosis (TB) cases were detected in the Volta Region in 2013, out of which 1,340 are undergoing treatment.

PaMZ could wipe out several resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis — the cause of most cases of TB — which have been spreading through South Africa, India and the countries that made up the former Soviet Union.

But the high hopes have since crashed as rates of tuberculosis rates have not fallen dramatically, and nations are now looking to address the problems that cause so many TB cases to be missed and the difficulties in treating those who are diagnosed.

In 1992, after doctors started reporting cases of tuberculosis among the Yanomami, Sousa and researchers from Brazil and France traveled into the Amazonian forest to study the group — a 5 - day trip by boat from Manaus, Brazil.

In a series of case studies, Meyers analyzes how credit has been doled out in major scientific discoveries, including the creation of MRI and the development of streptomycin, the first antibiotic against tuberculosis.

Adrian Williams and Robin Dunbar make a persuasive case for the probiotic effect of the tuberculosis pathogen in our evolutionary...

The cases consisted of multiple chest X-ray datasets from the National Institutes of Health, the Belarus Tuberculosis Portal, and TJUH.

According to the World Health Organization, antimicrobial resistance is one of the biggest public health threats we face today; there were about 480,000 new cases of multidrug - resistant tuberculosis in 2013.

Cases of drug - resistant tuberculosis are forecasted to increase in the four high burden countries (India, the Philippines, Russia, and South Africa) between 2000 and 2040, with the upturn likely to be a result of increased transmission of drug - resistant tuberculosis between people, rather than by strains acquiring resistance to anti-tuberculosis drugs, according to a study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.

The study, conducted by Louis Grandjean of Imperial College London, and colleagues, compared new tuberculosis cases among household contacts of tuberculosis patients in South Lima and Callao, Peru to determine the relative fitness of MDRTB versus drug - susceptible tuberculosis.

Nearly 40 % of all drug - resistant tuberculosis cases occur in Russia, India, the Philippines, and South Africa — accounting for more than 230000 cases of drug - resistant disease in 2015.

Unfortunately, the majority of MDR tuberculosis cases occur in developing countries that can't afford the several billion dollars that the global Stop TB Partnership estimates3 will be required to combat the disease.

It uses data from WHO and surveys estimating the number of drug - resistant tuberculosis cases to predict how many cases of multidrug - resistant and extensively drug - resistant tuberculosis would develop during 2000 and 2040.

The study authors propose that increased spread from person to person will be responsible for the growing number of drug - resistant tuberculosis cases.

In addition, almost one in ten cases of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis in each of the four countries were expected to be extensively drug - resistant by 2040 (9 % in Russia and the Philippines, 8.9 % in India, and 8.5 % in South Africa), compared with around 1 % in 2000 (1.3 % in Russia, 1.6 % in the Philippines, 0.9 % in India, and 0.4 % in South Africa).

Latest figures estimate that each year there are 10.4 million new cases of tuberculosis, leading to 1.8 million deaths globally.

Previous laboratory findings as well as estimates of fitness based on genetic clustering of strains in the population suggested a lower relative fitness for MDRTB compared to drug - susceptible tuberculosis, but few studies have directly measured the incidence of second cases of tuberculosis among contacts of both MDRTB and drug - susceptible tuberculosis.

The TB bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is estimated to be present in up to a third of the world's population, although active TB only develops in around one in 10 cases.

The rise of drug - resistant tuberculosis poses a serious threat to humans, with approximately 580,000 cases occurring in 2015, resulting in about 250,000 deaths.

New data released by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and WHO / Europe ahead of World TB Day show that an estimated 340,000 Europeans developed tuberculosis (TB) in 2014, corresponding to a rate of 37 cases per 100,000 population.

«Only a minority of urban Indian pharmacies correctly managed patients with presumed tuberculosis,» explains Dr. Srinath Satyanarayana, first author of the study, and a doctoral candidate in epidemiology at McGill University, «but most correctly managed a case of confirmed tuberculosis.»

Tuberculosis, which is spread through the air from one person to another, is the No. 1 cause of infectious disease deaths in the world, with an incidence of approximately 10 million new cases and 1.7 million deaths each year.

«Tuberculosis is very difficult to treat and in most cases, takes six to nine months of taking at least four drugs daily.

According to Global Tuberculosis Control 2009, released on World TB Day (24 March), 9.27 million people developed active cases of TB that year, and 1.37 million of these people also had HIV infections.

Double whammy: Sub-Saharan Africa, which has the world's most widespread HIV epidemic, has also been hardest hit by new cases of tuberculosis.

He attributes the containment of cases to Norway's tuberculosis - control program, which involves screening immigrants for the disease, putting them on medications, and tracking down their contacts who might also be infected.

Infectious diseases such as HIV / AIDS and tuberculosis continue to rank high among global mortality factors, especially in developing countries, and systemic inflammation has been identified as a root case of many chronic disorders in the developed world.

A standard and inexpensive tuberculosis treatment regimen cut the overall TB rate in half and lowered the rate of drug - resistant cases even more dramatically in a remote Mexican health district with...

Osteological and Biomolecular Evidence of a 7000 - Year - Old Case of Hypertrophic Pulmonary Osteopathy Secondary to Tuberculosis from Neolithic Hungary.

They found numerous cases of infections and metabolic diseases, and some skeletons showed signs of Hypertrophic Pulmonary Osteopathy and therefore potentially tuberculosis.

There are 22 high - burden countries globally, among them Ethiopia, accounting for 80 % of all active tuberculosis cases.

The approach developed by the MGH team starts with the engineered protein, which in this case fuses an antibody fragment targeting a protein called mesothelin — expressed on the surface of such tumors as mesothelioma, ovarian cancer and pancreatic cancer — to a protein from the tuberculosis bacteria that stimulates the activity of dendritic and other immune cells.

In particular, these handouts cover the following specific content about tuberculosis in South Africa: Case study of one communicable disease, such as malaria or tuberculosis, at a country scale, either an LIDC or EDC, including: o environmental and human causes of the disease o prevalence, incidence and patterns of the disease o socio - economic impacts of the disease o direct and indirect strategies used by government and international agencies to mitigate against the disease and respond to outbreaks.

Following recent media coverage about cats and tuberculosis (TB), Cats Protection wishes to stress that there have been no documented cases of...

The first case of tuberculosis this year was recently reported at Merced High School, according to the Merced County Department of Public Health.

«Often, the sick don't want to walk long distances, they don't want to leave their children behind and, in many cases, they associate hospitals with bad outcomes and death,» said Dr. Peter M. Small, who heads the university's health institute and was formerly deputy director of the Tuberculosis Delivery Program for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

And Bainbridge digs up a case that's even more on point: a Pennsylvania matter where prisoners exposed to tuberculosis virus were held entitled to damages for mental suffering for fear of having contracted the disease or transmitted it to others.