Sentence examples for of active tuberculosis from inspiring English sources

Untreated, most cases of active tuberculosis are eventually fatal.

The driver coughed repeatedly during the trip and was given a diagnosis of active tuberculosis nine days later.

From 1900 to 1985, the number of active tuberculosis cases per 100,000 Americans fell from 220 to 9.

Though immigrants account for only 10percentt of the United States population, they constitute about 40percentt of active tuberculosis cases.

There were just 17,528 cases of active tuberculosis disease reported in the United States last year, down from 18,361 cases in 1998 and fully a third less than the recent peak of 26,673 set in 1992.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has estimated that there are about 8 million new cases annually of active Tuberculosis (TB).

This sample consisted of two physicians, a chemical engineer and an underage child in whose family there were cases of active tuberculosis.

A third of the world population is latently infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis and many cases of active tuberculosis arise from latent bacilli reactivation.

In 2010, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that there were an alarming 8.8 million new cases of active tuberculosis and 1.4 million deaths caused by this disease, making it the eighth leading cause of death globally [2,3].

Epidemiological studies can inform screening algorithms for both detection and prevention of active tuberculosis.

New tools for a rapid diagnosis of active tuberculosis are needed especially for the smear negative and extra-pulmonary cases.