Post-tuberculosis lung disease: questions and answers
Giovanni Battista Migliori, Rosella Centis, Lia D’Ambrosio, Denise Rossato Silva, Daria Podlekareva, H. Simon Schaaf
Abstract
<title>Extract</title> Although tuberculosis (TB) is a preventable and curable disease, after the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, it regained its role as the leading global cause of death from a single infectious agent, causing 10.8 million cases and 1.25 million deaths as estimated by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2023 [1].
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MedicineTuberculosisLung diseaseDiseaseQuestions and answersLungIntensive care medicineFamily medicinePathologyInternal medicineWorld Wide WebComputer scienceTuberculosis Research and EpidemiologyInfectious Diseases and TuberculosisDiagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis