The phrase "a majority of tuberculosis" is not correct and does not make sense in written English.
It is not usable because "tuberculosis" is an uncountable noun referring to a disease, and you cannot have a majority of a disease.
Example: "A majority of tuberculosis cases are found in developing countries."
Alternatives: "most cases of tuberculosis" or "the bulk of tuberculosis instances".
The overwhelming majority of tuberculosis cases are caused by bacterial strains that yield to the standard, or first-line, anti-TB drugs.
The majority of tuberculosis (TB) cases in England occur from reactivation of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) in the settled migrant population.
The Beijing genotype is very widespread, making up the majority of tuberculosis cases in some parts of the world, and increasing in others [4].
Recent infection, rather than late reactivation, likely drives the majority of tuberculosis in this setting.
NSW surveillance data indicate that the majority of tuberculosis cases identified occur among recent immigrants who acquired M. tuberculosis infection in their country of origin [ 5].
doi: 10.7554/eLife.05166 Image The majority of tuberculosis cases in the Karonga District of Malawi between 1995 and 2010 were caused by one lineage of the bacterium M. tuberculosis (shown in red) Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the causative agent of tuberculosis, a disease that is a major threat to human health worldwide.
From a public health point of view, it is imperative that medical housestaff training at urban medical centers be able to recognize and promptly treat this infection, since these centers treat the majority of tuberculosis cases in the U.S. [ 16, 17].
However, considering that the majority of tuberculosis cases were due to reactivation of latent infection, the influence of recent infection for the estimation of rate of clearance of latency would be small in the 1950s and almost abolished in the 1960s and 1970s.
Molecular markers not only allow the verification of paleopathological diagnoses but also enable individuals with ambiguous or no visible lesions to be screened for the presence of bacterial biomolecular markers, since, in the majority of tuberculosis and leprosy cases, there are no visible bone changes [ 8, 9].
Tuberculosis is a major global public health challenge, and a majority of countries have adopted a version of the global strategy to fight Tuberculosis, Directly Observed Treatment, Short Course (DOTS).
