TUBERCULOSIS IN HAEMODIALYSIS: A PROBLEM MAKING A COMEBACK | Zendy

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TUBERCULOSIS IN HAEMODIALYSIS: A PROBLEM MAKING A COMEBACK

Author(s) -

Zyga S.,

Tourouki G.

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

journal of renal care

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.381

H-Index - 27

eISSN - 1755-6686

pISSN - 1755-6678

DOI - 10.1111/j.1755-6686.2006.tb00017.x

Subject(s) - medicine , tuberculosis , incidence (geometry) , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , dialysis , active tuberculosis , population , public health , intensive care medicine , surgery , environmental health , pathology , mycobacterium tuberculosis , physics , optics

Tuberculosis (TB) accounts for a significant proportion of all deaths by infectious diseases. Controlling tuberculosis is a major public health issue especially in the developing nations, where the rise of the disease's incidence varies between 5–30% and the rise reaches reduplication every 5–10 years. The consequences of the disease in renal dialysis patients vary between 3.7–6%, thus being 12–15 times higher than the rest of the population.

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