Tuberculosis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Tuberculosis (abbreviated TB , which can also stand for tubercle bacillus ) is a common and often deadly infectious disease caused by mycobacteria. In humans, Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the ...
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Tuberculosis was popularly known as consumption for a long time. Scientists know it as an infection caused by M. tuberculosis. ... This form of the disease is called reactivation TB, or post-primary disease. On rare occasions a previously infected person gets sick again after a later exposure to the tubercle bacillus.
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We d seen the deadly disease, consumption, mentioned in historical books or movies, but to tell the truth, we had no idea what it was. An informative page from Modern Drug Discovery solved the medical mystery. ... The Greeks called it phthisis, and Hippocrates advised his medical students against treating it,
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Tuberculosis, at the turn of the 19th century, claimed more lives in the United States than any other disease. It was called “Consumption” because of its consuming and lingering symptoms.
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Tuberculosis (TB) is a bacteria that usually causes disease in the lung. In the past, tuberculosis was called consumption, because it seemed to consume people from within, with a bloody cough, fever, pallor, and long relentless wasting. Man...
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Suppose that a person should tell you that the air you breathe is poisoned and go on to tell you the effect it has on the system: how it passes through the windpipe into the lungs, making you cough, and gives all the particulars of this disease called consumption, and you finally get the idea into your mind or knowledge.
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Tuberculosis, once called "consumption" and "white plague," is an ancient disease that may have always been with us. Evidence of tubercular decay found in the skulls and spines of Egyptian mummies, tell us that TB has been plaguing humans for at least 4,000 years.
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According to the WHO, worldwide incidence of tuberculosis (TB) may have peaked in 2005. Tuberculosis infection is responsible for more deaths than any other infectious disease. Once called consumption, TB is a highly contagious, persistent disease characterized by the formation of hard grayish nodules, or tubercles.
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The dangers are of rapid spread through both lungs (what used to be called ‘galloping consumption’) or the development of miliary tuberculosis (spreading in the bloodstream to other sites) or tuberculous meningitis. ... Consumption (disease); Consumption (economics); Consumption (economics);
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