Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Bangladesh ranks sixth TB burden countries in the world

Graphic presentation of detected cases in 2009
National TB Control Programme (NTP) informed that in 2009, 108894 new smear positive(SS+ve) cases, 3958 Relapse cases, 25136 smear negative (SS -ve) cases and 21865 Extra- Pulmonry TB (EPTB) cases detect in Bangladesh. Case detection rate among new smear positive case was 73.70%.

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