The risk of reactivation increases with immunosuppression, such as that caused by infection with HIV. In people coinfected with M. tuberculosis and HIV, the risk of reactivation increases to 10% per year. Studies using DNA fingerprinting of M. tuberculosis strains have shown reinfection contributes more substantially to recurrent TB than previously thought, with estimates that it might account for more than 50% of reactivated cases in areas where TB is common. The chance of death from a case of tuberculosis is about 4% as of 2008, down from 8% in 1995.
If you'd been diagnosed with tuberculosis in 1995, how great a chance would you have faced of dying from it?
8%
The chance of death from a case of tuberculosis is about 4% as of 2008, down from 8% in 1995.
The chance of death from a case of tuberculosis is about four percent as of two thousand eight, down from eight percent in nineteen ninety-five.
If you'd been diagnosed with tuberculosis in nineteen ninety-five, how great a chance would you have faced of dying from it?