GIS Based Mapping and Tuberculosis
Received Date: Jun 25, 2021 / Accepted Date: Jul 09, 2021 / Published Date: Jul 16, 2021
Abstract
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by the bacillus Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb.), infects over two billion people worldwide (90% latent infection; 10% active-disease). It typically affects the lungs (pulmonary TB) but can also affect other body organs (extra pulmonary TB). Approximately 10 million new active-TB patients emerge from those latently infected every year, 1.7 million die, making TB the largest infectious disease killer. TB spreads through air droplets when people who are infected with TB expel bacteria into the air by coughing or sneezing.
Keywords: Tuberculosis; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Infection
Citation: Wang Y (2021) GIS Based Mapping and Tuberculosis. Epidemiol Sci 11: 407 Doi: 10.4172/2161-1165.1000408
Copyright: © 2021 Wang Y. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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