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Tuberculosis (TB), also
known colloquially as the "white death", or
historically as consumption, is a
contagious disease usually caused by Mycobacterium...
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb), also
known as Koch's bacillus, is a
species of
pathogenic bacteria in the
family Mycobacteriaceae and the causative...
- The
history of
tuberculosis encomp****es the
origins of the disease,
tuberculosis (TB)
through to the
vaccines and
treatments methods developed to contain...
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Management of
tuberculosis refers to
techniques and
procedures utilized for
treating tuberculosis (TB), or
simply a
treatment plan for TB. The medical...
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Latent tuberculosis (LTB), also
called latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is when a
person is
infected with
Mycobacterium tuberculosis, but does not...
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Miliary tuberculosis is a form of
tuberculosis that is
characterized by a wide
dissemination into the
human body and by the tiny size of the
lesions (1–5 mm)...
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surgeon Percivall Pott who
first described the
symptoms in 1799, is
tuberculosis of the spine,
usually due to
haematogenous spread from
other sites, often...
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Everything Is
Tuberculosis: The
History and
Persistence of Our
Deadliest Infection is an
upcoming book by
American author John
Green about tuberculosis. It is...
- centuries. One sought, for instance, the
healing of
consumptives especially tuberculosis (before the
discovery of antibiotics) or alcoholism, but also of more...
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effect on the world's po****tion and
major artists in
various fields,
tuberculosis has
appeared in many
forms in
human culture. The
disease was for centuries...
