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English: :Tuberculosis deaths by region Tuberculosis is a bacterial infection which mainly affects the lungs, but can also impact the glands, bones and nervous system. It is an infectious disease which spreads from person-to-person.
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.
MTB can withstand weak disinfectants and survive in a dry state for weeks. In nature, the bacterium can grow only within the cells of a host organism, but M. tuberculosis can be cultured in the laboratory. [58] Using histological stains on expectorated samples from phlegm (also called sputum), scientists can identify MTB under a microscope.
Nine tuberculosis patients have been hospitalized and one has died, according to the health department. As of Monday, about 175 people had been exposed to tuberculosis as a result of the outbreak.
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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]
English: :Tuberculosis incidence (per 100,000 people) Incidence of tuberculosis is the estimated number of new and relapse tuberculosis cases arising in a given year, expressed as the rate per 100,000 population. All forms of TB are included, including cases in people living with HIV.