Tuberculosis Vaccine Market : Drivers and Trends, Regional & Competative Analysis
Tuberculosis (TB) is a very contagious disease caused by the bacterium known as Mycobacterium tuberculosis and is mainly spread through person to person contact. It causes multisystem infection and eventually might result in death of the infected person. Two types of TB that are commonly observed include latent TB in that the infected person do not show symptoms and active TB in that the infected person shows clinical symptoms of TB. Based on an international Tuberculosis Vaccine Market Report in 2018, TB costs around US$ 21 billion annually to global economy. Another important impetus to tuberculosis vaccine market would be current complex drug regime and resistance TB has established to the drug regime. TB patient needs to take significantly more than 2-3 drugs for prolonged time period of 6 months in order to suppress the infection. Often this results in poor people patient compliance and eventually leads to drug resistance incidence which further deteriorate the T...