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Tuberculosis During Pregnancy

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Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the leading causes of death worldwide and the most common cause of death from a single infectious agent. TB is caused by the droplet transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis) bacilli, which sick people shed into the air. About a quarter of the world’s population is considered to be infected with M. tuberculosis bacillus, and approximately 10 million (8.9–11 million) people were infected with TB in 2019. Although TB is a preventable and treatable disease, it caused 1.2 million deaths in HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) negative individuals and 208,000 deaths in HIV-positive individuals in 2019 [1].

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Akyil, F.T., Janeczek, K. (2022). Tuberculosis During Pregnancy. In: Cingi, C., Özel, H.E., Bayar Muluk, N. (eds) ENT Diseases: Diagnosis and Treatment during Pregnancy and Lactation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05303-0_63

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