North AmericatuberculosisThe re-emergence of tuberculosis as a major American public health hazard has focused much attention on the ancient disease. This book offers a comprehensive account of the disease from prehistoric times through to the present day, detailing the attempts to eradicate it ...
Tuberculosis has claimed its victims throughout much of known human history. It reached epidemic proportions in Europe and North America during the 18th and 19th centuries, earning the sobriquet, “Captain Among these Men of Death.” Then it began to decline. Understanding of the pathogenesis of ...
Tuberculosis (TB) has proven to be difficult to control in regions with a high prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. We previously de... R Wood - 《Clinical Infectious Diseases An Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America》 被引量: 68发表: 2010年...
Posted in Acupuncture, Acupuncture history in China, Acupuncture History in the United States of America, tagged head acupuncture, Hypothesis testing, Jiao shunfa, Scalp acupuncture on November 1, 2022| Leave a Comment » 叶明柱1, 樊蓥(Arthur Yin Fan) 2,3, Sarah Faggert Alemi 3 1. 上海...
Tuberculosis of the thymus. Tuberculosis is increasing in prevalence in North America, mainly due to HIV infection. We describe an unusual case of TB of the thymus in a HIV sero-negat... JM Fitzgerald,JR Mayo,RR Miller,... - 《Chest》 被引量: 36发表: 1992年 The capacity of M-ary ...
“hostile” Indigenous peoples. They made the education of children an essential part of their assimilation strategy. They thought that isolating Native children and educating them in the white tradition would break the ties between the children and their families,communities, and lands. This in ...
The White Death: A History of Tuberculosis (review) Although the book has an air of comprehensiveness (from Egyptian mummies to HIV), it deals almost entirely with Europe between 1800 and 1950. As Dormandy reviews countless biographies, he only rarely and superficially discusses the ... DS Jon...
Gutierrez and colleagues thought it likely that an early ancestor of Mycobacterium tuberculosis was present some 3 million years ago in East Africa, and they propose that it may have infected the great apes and ancestral man at that time. TB is largely preventable, treata...
Dr. Hart is perhaps best known as a pioneering epidemiologist. Hart took the Idaho Tuberculosis Hospital’s TB prevention and treatment program from nonexistent during the 1930s to among the best in the country by the time he left Idaho in 1948. Throughout the Great Depression and World War...
If history has taught us anything, the impact of forgetting the lessons learned on the control and prevention of infectious diseases is substantial—undermining established programs that address HIV, tuberculosis, malaria, AMR, vaccination and most major public health strategies. The recent COVID-19 ...