Talip Balkis A, Sleator Roy D, Lowery Colm J, Dooley James S G, Snelling William J
Northern Ireland Centre for Food and Health (NICHE), School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Ulster, Coleraine.
Department of Biological Sciences, Cork Institute of Technology, Cork, Ireland.
Infect Dis (Auckl). 2013 May 21;6:39-50. doi: 10.4137/IDRT.S11263. eCollection 2013.
Tuberculosis globally results in almost 2 million human deaths annually, with 1 in 4 deaths from tuberculosis being human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS)-related. Primarily a pathogen of the respiratory system, aerobic Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) infects the lungs via the inhalation of infected aerosol droplets generated by people with pulmonary disease through coughing. This review focuses on M. tuberculosis transmission, epidemiology, detection methods and technologies.
全球范围内，结核病每年导致近200万人死亡，其中四分之一的结核病死亡与人类免疫缺陷病毒/获得性免疫缺陷综合征（HIV/AIDS）相关。需氧结核分枝杆菌复合物（MTBC）主要是一种呼吸系统病原体，通过吸入患有肺部疾病的人咳嗽产生的受感染气溶胶飞沫来感染肺部。本综述重点关注结核分枝杆菌的传播、流行病学、检测方法和技术。
