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Aspergilloma in an old tuberculosis cavity; healed, calcified tuberculous lesions are also present towards the right of the image Healed tuberculous cavity, where the entire left lung is destroyed. Post-tuberculosis lung disease (PTLD) is ongoing lung disease that is caused by tuberculosis (TB) but persists after the infection is cured. [1]
Human infectious diseases may be characterized by their case fatality rate (CFR), the proportion of people diagnosed with a disease who die from it (cf. mortality rate).It should not be confused with the infection fatality rate (IFR), the estimated proportion of people infected by a disease-causing agent, including asymptomatic and undiagnosed infections, who die from the disease.
Roughly one-quarter of the world's population has been infected with M. tuberculosis, [6] with new infections occurring in about 1% of the population each year. [11] However, most infections with M. tuberculosis do not cause disease, [169] and 90–95% of infections remain asymptomatic. [87] In 2012, an estimated 8.6 million chronic cases were ...
The U.N. health agency said more than 10 million people worldwide were sickened by tuberculosis in 2021, a 4.5% rise from the year before. WHO said about 450,000 cases involved people infected ...
The city's health officer, Dr. Anissa Davis, declared the emergency last week, after its health department detected 14 tuberculosis cases at a single-room occupancy hotel.
Charlotte Brontë's death in 1855 was stated at the time as having been due to tuberculosis, but there is some controversy over this today. Clarissa Brooks, poet, died of tuberculosis in 1927; Charles Brockden Brown; Charles Farrar Browne; Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet, died of tuberculosis in 1861; Jean de Brunhoff
In tuberculosis-endemic regions, tuberculous pericarditis accounts for 50-90% of cases of effusive pericarditis, depending on HIV status. [6] In developed countries, it only accounts for about 4% of cases. [6] Tuberculous pericarditis is a deadly disease with a mortality rate of up to 40% in the first 6 months after diagnosis. [6]
According to a 2013 review, tuberculosis elimination will require not just treating active tuberculosis but also latent cases, and eliminating tuberculosis by 2050 worldwide is not possible, although great reductions in infections and deaths are possible. [3] Addressing poverty is a further requirement for eliminating tuberculosis.