Tuberculosis (TB) continues to be one of the world’s greatest challenges in the public health threat.The WHO has predicted that a failure to stop this epidemic will lead to about one billion people being newly infected, 125 million people developing TB and at least 30 million deaths from the disease by 2020.
India is the highest TB burden accounting more than 20% of the global incidence (global annual incidences 9.4 million, India annual incidence, 1.96 million -WHO 2009). This is twice as many cases as China which has the next highest number.
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