Open AccessChallenges in morphological diagnosis of tuberculosis
Author(s) -
Petro Kuzyk,
Andriy Yu. Horoshchak,
Bogdan Ya. Serbin,
Rahaina Musa-Bador,
Uchenna Uchie-Okoro
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
biomedical update
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2709-8605
pISSN - 2709-8591
DOI - 10.52739/bio-up.1.2021.28-35
Subject(s) - tuberculosis , medicine , cause of death , pulmonary tuberculosis , intensive care medicine , pathology , disease
TB is the seventh leading cause of death worldwide and third leading cause of death among women in the 15–44 age group1. However, in 2010, the number of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) cases rose to 650,000 worldwide, with more than 150,000 deaths. All of the well-known widely available methods such as chest X-ray, culture in liquid and solid media should be accompanied with the modern and more accurate methods such as chest CT and molecular diagnostic tests which proved the necessity of usage with high sensitivity and accuracy, especially in smear-negative pulmonary TB patients and patients with the multi drug resistant forms.