What is it about?
Tuberculosis according to this study is presented abnormally in healthy wealthy patients who had no risk factor for the infection. It infects productive active age, which is not suitable for the general concept of TB. Infection. Most of the patients were female, most patients were at their productive age which is supposed to be healthy, all were in good to moderate socioeconomic state, most of them were employed so they were educated, and all were HIV negative so there are differences from the concepts of TB infection that mean either these patients are inefficient vaccination or the vaccine protocol do not fit for new community requirements, ora new strains of mycobacterium or all.
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Why is it important?
Globally Tuberculosis is associated with poverty, unlike in Iraq, it is a disease of the middle and high classes in the society.
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This page is a summary of: Abnormal presentation of TB Patients: anthropological study, January 2019, Africa Health Research Organization,
DOI: 10.36295/asro.2019.22066.
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