Abstract:Background
China has a high disease burden of respiratory Tuberculosis (TB) and understanding the long-term trends in respiratory TB deaths and their epidemiological characteristics will assist China in achieving the WHO 2035 goal of ending the worldwide TB pandemic. To guide future respiratory TB preventive and intervention initiatives in China, this study thoroughly analyzed the secular trends of respiratory TB death statistics at a national level.
Methods
The annual estimate of respiratory TB mortality w… Show more
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