 An update was made on pulmonary tuberculosis, with

the aim of raising the level of information of doctors and

other persons related to the control of this disease,
about the situation of this disease worldwide and in our
country. The criteria of several experts on the causes
that led to the re-emergence of tuberculosis and the
factors that have ruled the control programs were
presented, being the fundamental ones: The deficient
active search of the cases considered reservoirs and
the multidrug resistance of the Mycobacterium
tuberculosis to medications, due to the application of
inadequate treatments.
Tuberculosis is one of the main diseases that
causes death worldwide, it is considered that
currently one third of the world population is
infected with tuberculosis, which every year occurs
eight million cases and causes between two million
deaths annually. In recent years, there has been an
increase of 0.3% in the number of tuberculosis
cases worldwide. Multiple factors such as poverty,
sanitary conditions contribute to the persistence of
the disease in the population.
The microorganism involved in this disease is the
bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, an
important characteristic of tuberculosis is that it can
present itself latently for years.
 Pulmonary tuberculosis continues to be a major health
problem worldwide, which annually contributes to a high
number of new and deceased cases. The elements that
have prevented the adequate control of the same are
the deficient active search of the cases considered
reservoirs and the multidrug resistance of
Mycobacterium tuberculosis to the medicines due to
inadequate treatments.