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    Tuberculosis (TB), also known colloquially as the "white death", or historically as consumption, is an infectious 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...
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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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    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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    The history of tuberculosis encompasses the origins of the disease, tuberculosis (TB) through to the vaccines and treatments methods developed to contain...
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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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    Abdominal tuberculosis is a type of extrapulmonary tuberculosis which involves the abdominal organs such as intestines, peritoneum and abdominal lymph...
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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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    Tuberculosis management describes the techniques and procedures utilized for treating tuberculosis (TB) or simply a treatment plan for TB. The medical...
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    effect on the world's population and major artists in various fields, tuberculosis has appeared in many forms in human culture. The disease was for centuries...
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  • Urogenital tuberculosis is a form of tuberculosis that affects the urogenital system. Persistent cystitis, unresponsive to antibiotics. Urinary frequency...
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    purified protein derivative) is a tool for screening for tuberculosis (TB) and for tuberculosis diagnosis. It is one of the major tuberculin skin tests...
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    Extrapulmonary tuberculosis is tuberculosis (TB) within a location in the body other than the lungs. It accounts for an increasing fraction of active cases...
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    agent of tuberculosis in cattle (known as bovine TB). It is related to Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium which causes tuberculosis in humans...
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    Behçet's disease. Bacterial infections associated with pneumonia and tuberculosis Chest injuries (blunt or penetrating) Familial Mediterranean fever, an...
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    BCG vaccine (category Tuberculosis vaccines)
    primarily used against tuberculosis (TB). It is named after its inventors Albert Calmette and Camille Guérin. In countries where tuberculosis or leprosy is common...
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  • Radiology (X-rays) is used in the diagnosis of tuberculosis. Abnormalities on chest radiographs may be suggestive of, but are never diagnostic of TB, but...
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  • Tuberculosis elimination is the effort to reduce the number of tuberculosis (TB) cases to less than one per 1 million population, contrasted with the...
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    Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is a form of tuberculosis (TB) infection caused by bacteria that are resistant to treatment with at least two...
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  • The current clinical classification system for tuberculosis (TB) is based on the pathogenesis of the disease. Health care providers should comply with...
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    The presence of F. hepatica can interfere with the detection of bovine tuberculosis in cattle. Cattle co-infected with F. hepatica, compared to those infected...
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  • Tuberculosis cutis orificialis (also known as "acute tuberculous ulcer") is a form of cutaneous tuberculosis that occurs at the mucocutaneous borders of...
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    San Haven was the name of a state hospital and tuberculosis sanatorium 2.5 miles northeast of Dunseith, Rolette County, in the U.S. state of North Dakota...
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  • mycobacteria and mycobacteria other than tuberculosis (MOTT), are mycobacteria which do not cause tuberculosis or leprosy/Hansen's disease. NTM are able...
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    Tuberculosis is diagnosed by finding Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria in a clinical specimen taken from the patient. While other investigations may...
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  • died of tuberculosis on June 1873 Maksim Bahdanovič, Belarusian poet, died from tuberculosis Manuel Bandeira, Brazilian poet, had tuberculosis in 1904...
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  • Tuberculosis (TB) vaccines are vaccinations intended for the prevention of tuberculosis. Immunotherapy as a defence against TB was first proposed in 1890...
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  • The National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme (NTEP), earlier known as the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP), is the Public Health...
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    Robert Koch (category Tuberculosis researchers)
    the specific causative agents of deadly infectious diseases including tuberculosis, cholera and anthrax, he is regarded as one of the main founders of modern...
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    Lupus vulgaris (also known as tuberculosis luposa) are painful cutaneous tuberculosis skin lesions with nodular appearance, most often on the face around...
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