Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Journal of Immunology and Clinical Microbiology , cilt.6, sa.1, ss.21-29, 2021 (Hakemli Dergi)
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease that has been known since the time of Hippocrates and has been seen in about 10 million people every year and has remained important from past to present. It is one of the top 10 deaths caused by a single infectious agent and is one of the top 10 causes of deaths worldwide, and is the most common cause of single-factor infection-related deaths (1). In 2017, 6.4 million new TB cases were officially registered in the world and reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) (1). In the same report, 65% of 12 417 new cases reported from our country were recorded as pulmonary tuberculosis and 35% as extrapulmonary tuberculosis (1). The share of extrapulmonary tuberculosis in all tuberculosis cases varies from country to country, but it usually varies between 20-40%, and in our country it is seen in approximately 35% of all patients (2).