Research Article: Time to Sputum Culture Conversion and Its Predictors Among Multidrug Resistant Tuberculosis Patients in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia: Retrospective Cohort Study
Abstract:
Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the leading causes of death from a single infectious agent, higher even than HIV/AIDS., Approximately people die from TB and nearly , people fall ill daily. Globally, million cases of TB were reported in ., According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the largest numbers of new TB cases were reported in the Southeast Asian region (%), followed by theAfrican region (%) and the Western Pacific region (%). This data emphasized the need to tackle achieving the global target set by for a % reduction in the number of TB deaths and an % reduction in the TB incidence rate.
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