Sentence examples for highest rate of tuberculosis from inspiring English sources

According to the World Health Organization, Asia also has the world's highest rate of tuberculosis.

While the change has occurred in cities around the country, it is most striking in New York, which has the highest rate of tuberculosis in the nation.

San Francisco has the highest rate of tuberculosis (TB) in the U.S. with recurrent outbreaks among the homeless and marginally housed.

Tuberculosis has been reported in all the provinces in Iran, but this rate was higher in eastern part, as neighboring to Afghanistan and Pakistan which have the highest rate of tuberculosis in the world.

Singapore had one of the world's highest rates of tuberculosis.

Travelers returning from Central and Southern African regions, which are among countries with the highest rates of tuberculosis worldwide (9 ), accounted for 6 cases of symptomatic tuberculosis (Table 4).

The convergence of these conditions: the high rate of tuberculosis prevalence, a vulnerable population and the existence of undiagnosed and untreated drug resistant tuberculosis create the potential for dramatically increasing epidemics.

Kazakhstan has a high rate of tuberculosis overall, and one of the highest rates of MDR-TB in the world.

The Philippines has an extremely high rate of tuberculosis but little is known about M. tuberculosis genotypes and transmission dynamics in this country.

A high rate of tuberculosis mortality among the adult population, which slowed down the increase in life expectancy, was observed in Philadelphia during the beginning of the 20th century (66).

Several studies have used Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) patterns to evaluate pre-disposition to tuberculosis and found a positive relationship between a SNP associated with high IL-6 production (position – 174 of the gene) and the relatively high rate of tuberculosis amongst a Canadian aboriginal population [41].