Multidrug-resistant TB cases in new and previously treated by world region 2012
This statistic depicts estimated proportions of multidrug-resistant cases among new and previously treated tuberculosis cases in 2012, by world region. In that year, the European region had a 15.7 percent proportion of new and 45.3 percent proportion of previously treated TB cases that were found to be multidrug-resistant. Tuberculosis is cased by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis. In 2012, 8.7 million people developed TB while 1.3 million died due to the disease. Drug-resistance is a major global health concern.