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29 paź 2024 · It spreads through the air when people with TB cough, sneeze or spit. Tuberculosis is preventable and curable. About a quarter of the global population is estimated to have been infected with TB bacteria. About 5–10% of people infected with TB will eventually get symptoms and develop TB disease.
3 lis 2017 · The purpose of this article is to provide a high-level overview of what is known about tuberculosis transmission, using the tuberculosis transmission cascade as a framework, and to set the scene for the articles in this series, which address specific aspects of tuberculosis transmission.
TB is contagious and airborne. It is caused by bacteria (Mycobacterium tuberculosis) that most often affect the lungs. TB is spread from person to person through the air. When people with lung TB cough, sneeze or spit, they propel TB germs into the air.
Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis. It spreads from people as they breathe, cough, sneeze, shout, or share the bacterial particles in other ways. The bacteria can then infect other people who inhale them.
13 gru 2018 · In the first paper in this Series, Peters and colleagues explore advances in the understanding of transmission in these settings. They outline that interventions to curtail the transmission of tuberculosis have been slow to emerge and have been substantially complicated by HIV.
13 lip 2023 · Tuberculosis (TB), a preventable and curable disease, remains a leading cause of global morbidity and mortality, with over 10 million people infected and 1.6 million dying from it in 2021. 1 Even with a sufficiently high bacterial burden for detection by sputum smear microscopy, up to 25% of the cases lack clinical symptoms of TB.
