Tuberculosis has been on the rise in tandem with HIV/AIDS, because people with HIV, whose immune systems are weakened, easily contract tuberculosis and go on to develop active tuberculosis.
You had tuberculosis and meningitis as a child, and a sister died at 19 of Hodgkin's lymphoma.
One of the products, Cycloserine, is particularly important because it is a second-line medicine, necessary to treat tuberculosis that is resistant to standard treatment.
Slums are productive breeding grounds for tuberculosis, hepatitis, dengue, pneumonia, cholera, and diarrhoeal diseases that spread easily in highly concentrated populations.
"Bacteria cause disease by secreting or excreting toxins (as in Botulism), by producing toxins internally, which are released when the Bacteria disintegrate (as in typhoid), or by inducing sensitivity to their antigenic properties (as in tuberculosis)."
The best remedy for tuberculosis consists in rest.
The world is already suffering pandemics of AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
More than 1,500 children die every day from treatable illnesses such as pneumonia, tuberculosis, dengue fever and malaria.
This is under way at a WHO collaborating centre in Latvia where national tuberculosis programme staff are trained in the management of MDR-TB, and a similar centre is being set up in the Philippines.
She is wasting away with tuberculosis.
Radiologists have already identified signs of tuberculosis or a fungal lung infection.
The risk of catching tuberculosis (TB) and other airborne diseases may be reduced simply by opening Windows and doors, according to a study in Peru.
The resulting trial, which involved 30 people with tuberculosis, was a success, and a second is about to be carried out in Pakistan, where a batch of 400 XoutTB patches is arriving this month.
The incidence of lung cancer in these tuberculosis patients was 11 times greater than people without tuberculosis.
Other issues that figured prominently in our survey - such as malaria and tuberculosis - mainly affect men, women and children in the developing world.
As late as the 1950s tuberculosis was still a threat.
She was shunned by her family, and the death of her fiance from tuberculosis propelled her back into the convent.
Aggressive tobacco control could avert millions of deaths from tuberculosis.
Items, such as the ones on blindness and drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis, remind us of the power of public health, and of partnerships, to prevent, treat, and cure.
To determine whether differences in national trends in tuberculosis incidence are attributable to the variable success of control programmes or to biological, social and economic factors.
In cases of tuberculosis blood is expectorated.
The old editorial frets about the “demon of tuberculosis” and diarrheal diseases in Africa, conditions we have yet to exorcise.
Since then, many diseases, including tuberculosis and malaria, have dramatically resurged.
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