Cobbett has done much to fill this gap.doi:10.1038/100301a0NoneNatureNatureCoBBETT, L. (1917). The Causes of Tuberculosis Together with Some Account of the Prevalence and Distribution of the Disease. Cambridge Univ. Press.
In spite of much investigation, tuberculosis remains a most complex disease. The infectious agents have been discovered, the paths of infections clarified, the reaction of the body to their presence made known, and the relative role of immunity and allergy investigated, but much of the human prob...
As many may be aware, tuberculosis is an infectious disease that primarily affects your lungs. The bacteria that cause tuberculosis are spread from person to person through tiny droplets released into the air via coughs and sneezes. Tuberculosis, or TB, is a very common problem in African ...
Reactivation disease:Active tuberculosis occurs years after a period of latent infection. What Are the Symptoms of Tuberculosis? Over the years, experts and researchers have shared various symptoms associated with tuberculosis. The main symptom of pulmonary tuberculosis is a persistent cough, often accomp...
A TB infection doesn’t always mean you’ll get sick. There are several stages and forms of the disease: Primary TB.This is the first stage of a tuberculosis infection. Your immune system may be able to fight off the germs. But sometimes it doesn't destroy all of them, and they keep...
Age and active TB disease The risk of aTBinfection becoming activeTBdisease changes with age. Under 5 years of age.Until children reach age 5, they have high risk of aTBinfection becoming activeTBdisease. The risk is greater for children under age 2. Tuberculosis in this age group often lea...
If the body's immune system weakens, tuberculosis can become active and cause disease.Tuberculosis typically affects the lungs. But in up to one-third of infected people, particularly those with HIV/AIDS, the illness also involves other areas of the body. Common sites of infection include the ...
tuberculosis. –Developedthefollowingthreepostulates �Thepathogenoccursineverycaseofthe diseaseinquestionassociatedwithit characteristicpathologicclinicalmanifestations. �Afterbeingfullyisolatedfromthebodyand repeatedlygrowninpureculture,itcaninduce diseaseinasymptom-freehost. �Thepathogencanberecoveredfromthenew ...
Tuberculosis (TB) isa known lung diseasecaused by a bacterium calledMycobacterium tuberculosis.It is curable and preventable, however, since it can easily be transmitted from person to person, may fall victim to the disease. A person needs only to inhale a few of the TB germs become infected....
The Directorate General of Disease Control and Environmental Health Ministry of Health Republic of Indonesia National Guidelines of Tuberculosis Control. Ministry of Health Republic of Indonesia: Jakarta, 2014. Ang M, Hedayatfar A, Zhang R, Chee SP . Clinical signs of uveitis associated with latent...