{"title":"Bug Breakfast in the Bulletin: Tuberculosis","authors":"M. Cretikos, Pamela Banner, G. Marks","doi":"10.1071/NB08046","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by organisms of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex. In 2006, 9.2 million people worldwide acquired tuberculosis, 1.5 million people died from tuberculosis, and an additional 200 000 people died from human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-associated tuberculosis.1 Tuberculosis is important because of this global burden of disease and the emerging risk of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, often in association with HIV infection in developing countries.1","PeriodicalId":426489,"journal":{"name":"New South Wales Public Health Bulletin","volume":"208 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2009-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"New South Wales Public Health Bulletin","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1071/NB08046","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by organisms of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex. In 2006, 9.2 million people worldwide acquired tuberculosis, 1.5 million people died from tuberculosis, and an additional 200 000 people died from human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-associated tuberculosis.1 Tuberculosis is important because of this global burden of disease and the emerging risk of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, often in association with HIV infection in developing countries.1