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Tuberculosis
New tuberculosis study findings recently were published by researchers at Semmelweis University
August 26th, 2008
"The emergence of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) poses a major threat to TB control efforts. We report a case of a 50-year-old man with pulmonary TB," scientists in Budapest, Hungary report. "The scene investigation had initially suspected for homicide; however, the result of medico-legal autopsy demonstrated natural cause of death. Statistical data suggest that the rates of national mortality by respiratory TB decreased in the last decades in Hungary; however, an increasing TB mortality was detected in the capital Budapest," wrote K. Toro and colleagues, Semmelweis University. The researchers concluded: "Facing a new mortality trend in TB, the...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-08-26)
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