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Tuberculosis (TB) is a serious illness that mainly affects the lungs. The germs that cause tuberculosis are a type of bacteria. Tuberculosis can spread when ...
A tiny amount of a substance called tuberculin is injected just below the skin on the inside of one forearm. Within 48 to 72 hours, a health care worker will ...
Tuberculosis (TB) is a potentially serious infectious disease that mainly affects the lungs. The bacteria that cause TB are spread from one person to ...
... tuberculosis are at risk of becoming infected with TB." She adds, "It is prevented by identifying people who have tuberculosis infection, isolating them ...
World Tuberculosis Day is March 24. ROCHESTER, Minn. — The global fight against tuberculosis is gaining some powerful tools. Precision medicine — already ...
TB is caused by bacteria called Mycobacterium tuberculosis that spreads from person to person through tiny droplets released into the air through coughs and ...
In 2021, 7882 cases of tuberculosis, or TB, were diagnosed in the U.S., and up to 13 million people in the U.S. were living with latent TB.
Tuberculosis is one of the world's deadly diseases. Each day, nearly 4,000 people lose their lives to TB and close to 28,000 people fall ill with this ...
Learn about the prevention and treatment of this disease that causes serious illness around the world.
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