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| Title: | The TB pandemic: an old problem seeking new solutions |
| Authors: | Meya, David. B
McAdam, K. P. W. J |
| Keywords: | Diagnosis
Drug resistance
HIV
Treatment
Tuberculosis
Vaccines |
| Issue Date: | 2007 |
| Publisher: | Blackwell Publishing Ltd Journal of Internal Medicine |
| Citation: | meya D, McAdam K.The TB pandemic: an old problem seeking new solutions.Vol 261 |
| Abstract: | Meya DB, McAdam KPWJ (Infectious
Disease Institute, Kampala, Uganda). The TB pandemic: an old problem seeking new solutions
(Review). J Intern Med 2007; 261: 309–329.
Tuberculosis (TB) continues to kill more than 2 million
people globally each year. Annual TB case notification
rates have risen up to fourfold since the mid-1980s, with the highest rate of 1000/100 000 around Cape Town, South Africa. There is an urgent need for novel diagnostic methods and preventive vaccines to control this epidemic. The rising incidence of TB has been attributed to HIV co-infection especially in developing countries. The threat of drug resistance arising from ineffective TB treatment programmes is
looming and could potentially lead to loss of any
gains made in controlling the disease globally. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1437 |
| Appears in Collections: | Research Articles (IDI)
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