Serrano, Grace Kathleen T.; Baja, Emmanuel S.; Lansang, … - Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), … - 2014
Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the leading killers among bacterial diseases worldwide. In the Philippines, the prevalence of culture-positive TB is estimated to be 5 per 1000 and that for sputum smear-positive pulmonary TB is 2 per 1000 based on the 2007 National Prevalence Survey. In...