Tuberc Respir Dis.  2011 Dec;71(6):395-399.

The Latest Achievements in Study of Tuberculosis

Affiliations
  • 1Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine and Lung Institute of Medical Research Center, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. yimjj@snu.ac.kr

Abstract

Tuberculosis is one of the leading causes of mortality and morbidity worldwide. In 2010, there were 8.8 million (range, 8.5~9.2 million) incident cases of TB, 1.1 million deaths from TB among HIV-negative people and an additional 0.35 million deaths from HIV-associated TB. Due to such health-related importance, tuberculosis is one of areas being actively researched. Many numbers of tuberculosis-related papers are being presented each year, and in this review, it summarizes contents of a few papers that had been selected among the papers presented from 2009 to early 2011.

Keyword

Tuberculosis

MeSH Terms

Achievement
Tuberculosis

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