RT Book, Section 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 SR Print(0) ID 56083962 T1 Chapter 184. Tuberculosis and Infections with Atypical Mycobacteria T2 Fitzpatrick's Dermatology in General Medicine, 8e YR 2012 FD 2012 PB The McGraw-Hill Companies PP New York, NY SN 978-0-07-166904-7 LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=56083962 RD 2024/03/28 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.