Open AccessRadiological Follow-up of Pulmonary Tuberculosis
Author(s) -
Tariq Gojwari
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of medical sciences/journal of medical sciences (srinagar. online)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2582-063X
pISSN - 0972-110X
DOI - 10.33883/jms.v19i1.273
Subject(s) - medicine , tuberculosis , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , leaps , radiological weapon , population , demography , china , pulmonary tuberculosis , environmental health , pediatrics , family medicine , surgery , pathology , law , sociology , financial economics , economics , political science
Tuberculosis is a global health problem and is the second leading infectious cause of death, after human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). In 2014, there were an estimated 9.6 million incident cases of TB (range, 9.1 million–10.0 million) globally, equivalent to 133 cases per 100 000 population 1 . Most of the estimated number of cases in 2014 occurred in Asia (58%) and the African Region (28%). The six countries that stood out as having the largest number of incident cases in 2014 were India, Indonesia, China, Nigeria, Pakistan and South Africa. There were an estimated 1.5 million TB deaths in 2014 , 1.1 million among HIV-negative people and 390 000 among HIV- positive people 1 . These numbers show the importance of tuberculosis as a community health problem especially in our part of the world despite the leaps and bounds with which medicine has progressed our the past century. Furthermore, this issue itself has two articles related to tuberculosis by Koul et al and Rangrez et al highlighting the fact that there still is a lot that we have to learn about TB. JMS 2016; 19(1):2-4