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A 3D Human Lung Tissue Model for Functional Studies on Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection
Published on: October 5, 2015
[The tuberculosis endemic and its control in the city of Bucharest in 1996]
1Institutul de Pneumoftiziologie Marius Nasta.
Abstract:
Tuberculosis is one of the main problems of public health and the population has to face it in one of the biggest crowded town in Romania, Bucharest. It is also the capital of the country. An increasing tendency has appeared in the number of cases and deaths due to tuberculosis. The overall incidence of tuberculosis has increased by 5% in 1996, attaining finally the level of 128.6/100,000. The level is exceeded only by a few towns in Romania. The increase is due almost exclusively to the new cases of disease. The program of chemotherapy is facing a more reduced rate of cure and, implicitly, a high rate of failure by treatment. The periodical prevalence of the bacilliferous patients has attained 129.0/100,000 inhabitants. The deaths by tuberculosis have been increasing for a few years; the mortality was of 13.6/100,000 inhabitants in 1995 more than double as that in 1995 (6.5/100,000).
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