TB usually infects the lungs, but can also cause symptoms that affect the whole body. Not everyone who is infected with tuberculosis bacteria (called primary infection) gets sick or infects other people. About 10 million people in the United States are infected with tuberculosis, but only one...
Tuberculosis(TB),a chronic bacterial infection,causes more deaths worldwidethan any other infectious disease.TB isspread throuh the air and usually infectsthe lungs,although other organs aresometimes involved.Some 2 billionpeople-one third of the world's population-are infected with the TB organism...
Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the top three global infectious diseases; one third of the world's population – approximately 2.2 billion people – bears either an active or latent infection. The disease is caused by the bacterium , a pathogen which usually infects the lungs and spreads through...
Tuberculosis (TB), a chronic granulomatous disease caused byMycobacterium tuberculosis(M. tuberculosis) that typically infects the lungs, is one of the most prevalent contagious infections [1]. This aerosol-based transmissible disease is among the top infectious diseases worldwide [2,3,4]. In Indi...
DTuberculosis, or TB, spreads through the air, infects(感染) billions of people andis increasingly difficult to treat. While it might sound like something from a sci-fimovie, itis unfortunately all too realToday, people in the developed world usually see the symptoms of TB - fever,tiredness...
Tuberculosis is the leading infectious cause of death in the world, a contagious threat caused by the bacteriumMycobacterium tuberculosis(Mtb), which attacks the lungs and can spread to other parts of the body. Current statistics show that tuberculosis (TB) infects more than 10 million people wor...
Because certain diseases can be contracted while traveling. Case in point: Tuberculosis (TB), a deadly infection that most often infects the lungs but can also spread to the urinary tract where it can cause urinary frequency, urgency, pain and blood in the urine. ...
In most persons the primary infection is contained by the body's immune system, and the lesion, called a tubercle, becomes calcified. In many the infection is permanently arrested. In others the disease may break out again and become active years later, usually when the body's immune ...
as it is a facultativeaerobeand needs oxygen to survive, but it can spread easily through the air from an infected person. Due to its intracellular and pathogenic nature, it infects macrophages. In 75% of cases, the bacteria infect the lungs, termedpulmonary TB. In the other 25%, the ba...
Because tuberculosis is zoonotic and infects a wide range of animals, surveillance and prevention are needed to minimize the effect of this disease in nonhuman primates. Keywords: captivity; disease; pathogen; primate conservation 展开 关键词: