Article: Handbook Of Tuberculosis Clinics Diagnostics Therapy And Epidemiology Is The Third Volume In This Comprehensive Series On This Deadly Airborne Disease.

Article: State is suing to test inmate for tuberculosis
Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  December 7, 2007 ;     117 words ......the right to use force, if necessary, to test him for tuberculosis. Civil charges were filed Thursday in 3rd District Court...who has refused to be tested for the potentially fatal, airborne disease. Heaps was last tested in Dec. 2006. The corrections department holds that failure to test Heaps for ...

Article: DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH PROMOTES AWARENESS OF TUBERCULOSIS THREAT
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  March 23, 2007 ;     301 words ......raise public awareness of tuberculosis (TB) and the importance...eliminate, the infectious airborne disease. Observed each March 24...against the spread of tuberculosis and encourages communities...medication. Tuberculosis is an airborne disease caused by bacteria. It...For ...

Article: Pennsylvania Department of Health Promotes Awareness of Tuberculosis Threat
U.S. Newswire;  March 23, 2007 ;     313 words ......raise public awareness of tuberculosis (TB) and the importance...eliminate, the infectious airborne disease. Observed each March 24...against the spread of tuberculosis and encourages communities...medication. Tuberculosis is an airborne disease caused by bacteria. It...For ...

Article: Tuberculosis: Pathogenesis, Protection, and Control
Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine;  May 1, 1997 ;     581 words ...Tuberculosis: Pathogenesis, Protection, and Control Edited by Barry...for Microbiology, 1994. This multiauthored text on tuberculosis is an excellent work that meets an important need...from the book's title. When first confronted with Tuberculosis: Pathogenesis, Protection, and Control, edited by...

Article: Know Your Enemy.(genetic studies of tuberculosis)
Science News;  October 21, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Scientists mine the tuberculosis genome The threat of tuberculosis is not a new one. Traces of the disease have been...showed that the rod-shaped bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis was behind the scourge. It was the first time that...

Article: TUBERCULOSIS: DISEASE ON DEADLY UPSWING AGENCY PUSHES WORLD TO FIGHT LEADING INFECTION.(NEWS)
The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH);  March 22, 1996 ;     380 words ......Associated Press LONDON -- Tuberculosis killed a record 3 million...have helped to spread the airborne disease over the globe, while haphazard...fax box follows article Tuberculosis' fatality list gets longer Facts and figures on tuberculosis, from the World Health...300 million more ...

Article: Toman's tuberculosis: Case detection, treatment and monitoring - Questions and answers
Indian Journal of Medical Research;  July 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Toman's tuberculosis: Case detection, treatment and monitoring...strange that a reference work such as 'Tuberculosis case-finding and Chemotherapy' by...diagnosis, treatment and control of tuberculosis, initially published more than 25...

Article: Tuberculosis: it's not just a lung disease.
Radiologic Technology;  July 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ...Tuberculosis has afflicted humankind for centuries, causing suffering...one-quarter of all adult deaths in Europe were caused by tuberculosis.[1] In the United States, the disease was the leading cause of death from 1800 until the early 1900s.[2] Tuberculosis is a communicable disease caused by the tubercle ...

Article: Increased incidence of the outbreak strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the surrounding community after an outbreak in a jail. (Original Article).
Southern Medical Journal;  February 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Background: Between 1995 and 1997, a tuberculosis outbreak occurred in a large, urban jail. We investigated whether the outbreak strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis) was circulating in the surrounding community after...

Article: Postmenopausal Tuberculosis Endometritis
Infectious Diseases in Obstetrics and Gynecology;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Tuberculosis remains a global health problem, primarily in developing countries with inadequate health services. A significant portion of tuberculosis in these settings is extrapulmonary, including tuberculosis of the genitourinary tract. Patients with genital tuberculosis are usually young women...

Article: Pennsylvania Sees Increase in Tuberculosis, Emphasizing Need for Awareness.
Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week;  April 11, 2009 ;     336 words ......eliminate, the infectious disease (see also Tuberculosis). In 2008, we saw an increase in the number of cases of tuberculosis and we are seeing more cases resistant...Pennsylvania, the number of reported cases of tuberculosis grew from 318 in 2007 to 345 in 2008...resistant to at least one traditional ...

Article: New tuberculosis study findings recently were reported by K. Najafizadeh and co-researchers.
Genomics & Genetics Weekly;  September 5, 2008 ;     394 words ...Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection has been shown to be...whether a particular strain of M. tuberculosis is associated with this group of...scientists in Iran report (see also Tuberculosis). To determine whether a particular...

Article: Tuberculosis in infants, children, and adolescents: an update with case studies.
Pediatric Nursing;  September 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ...Tuberculosis (TB) kills more people in the world today than any other infectious disease...antimicrobial drugs in the 1950s led to a consistent decline in cases of tuberculosis for about 3 decades, but this decline stopped in 1985. Mycobacterium tuberculosis is once again a major public health problem. In ...

Article: Pennsylvania Sees Increase in Tuberculosis, Emphasizing Need for Awareness
U.S. Newswire;  March 23, 2009 ;     327 words ......the need to increase public awareness of tuberculosis, or TB, and the importance of efforts...an increase in the number of cases of tuberculosis and we are seeing more cases resistant...Pennsylvania, the number of reported cases of tuberculosis grew from 318 in 2007 to 345 in 2008...resistant to at least ...