Emerging trends in tuberculosis therapy : A review
Year: 2007
Type: review
Abstract: on TB estimates that between 2000 and 2020, nearly one billion people will get sick and 35 million will die from TB. In India alone, one person dies because of TB every minute. Indian population (approx 50%) reports positive tuberculin test. Every year, about 0.4 million deaths and millions of new cases of TB are reported. Due to demographic factor, socio-economic trends, neglected TB control in many countries and HIV (Human-immuno deficiency virus) infection, this epidemic has been able to adopt such proportion. Efforts to stop these frightening trends are hampered by the lack of financial resources in developing countries, the appearance of the multi-drug resistant strains of
Language: English
Subfield: Infectious Diseases
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W115230118