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Tuberculosis: Symptoms and treatment 7 Articles

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    by Jennifer Ash

    Taking care of tuberculosis. Tuberculosis is a lung based disease that is common, highly contagious, and even deadly. Currently it affects one-third of our world's population. Not everyone who is infected will die from ...read more

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    by Joseph Kiwia

    TUBERCULOSIS: SYMPTOMS AND TREATMENT Tuberculosis is an infectious disease in which swellings appear on the lungs and on the other parts of the body. Tuberculosis is classified into two thus active or pulmonary tubercul...read more

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    by Sibusisiwe Musevenzi

    TB is caused by Mycobacterium Tuberculosis and has been in existence for a very long time.It is also found in cattle as Mycobacterium bovis.The symptoms in humans and this is most commonly pulmonary are characterised by wa...read more

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    by Luningning Sugbu

    Tuberculosis or TB is a contagious and chronic infection caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The bacteria enters the body via inhalation of droplets when a infected person coughs, spreading the bacteria in t...read more

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    by Ernie Yap

    Tuberculosis has the ominous reputation of being well-known by many names such the king's evil', consumption, scrofula amongst others. This is due to several reasons: 1) The disease-causing agent have eluded detection a...read more

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    by Peter Odutoye

    Looking at the word now, this dieseas of tuberculosis is getting more and more everyday, it is affecting many people, Economy and communities and our society. To start with,lets us first difine the so called tuberculos...read more

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    by Ashley Sultemeier

    There are 2 major types Tuberculosis: Pulmonary Tuberculosis (TB), and Mycobacterium Tuberculosis. Here is some useful information to look to. TB is caused by a germ that is transmitted from person to person by airborne...read more

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