TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Chapter 184. Tuberculosis and Infections with Atypical Mycobacteria A1 - Sethi, Aisha A2 - Goldsmith, Lowell A. A2 - Katz, Stephen I. A2 - Gilchrest, Barbara A. A2 - Paller, Amy S. A2 - Leffell, David J. A2 - Wolff, Klaus PY - 2012 T2 - Fitzpatrick's Dermatology in General Medicine, 8e AB - Tuberculosis is still an important worldwide disease. There were an estimated 9.27 million incident cases globally of TB in 2007.1 This is an increase from 9.24 million cases in 2006, to 8.3 million cases in 2000 and 6.6 million cases in 1990. Most of the estimated number of cases in 2007 were in Asia (55%) and Africa (31%), with small proportions in the Eastern Mediterranean region (6%), the European region (5%) and the Americas (3%). The five countries that ranked first to fifth in terms of total numbers of cases in 2007 were India, China, Indonesia, Nigeria, and South Africa. Of the 9.27 million incident cases in 2007, an estimated 1.37 million (14%) were HIV positive; 79% of these HIV-positive cases were in the African region. SN - PB - The McGraw-Hill Companies CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=56083962 ER -