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Tuberculosis in sentence

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So doctors had discovered a new drug, iproniazid, that they were optimistic might cure tuberculosis, and they gave it to patients, and patients were elated.
Thankfully, since the 1950s, we've developed some other drugs and we can actually now cure tuberculosis.
And also, like tuberculosis in the 1950s, we don't know what causes it.
They were so used to thinking about it from the framework of being a tuberculosis drug that they actually just listed it as a side effect, an adverse side effect.
And they were worried that this might somehow interfere with their recovering from tuberculosis.
It is possible that 20, 50, 100 years from now, we will look back now at depression and PTSD the way we look back at tuberculosis sanitoriums as a thing of the past.
The disease is tuberculosis.
And in this community, we started out by really just going to people's homes and talking to people, and we discovered an outbreak, an epidemic of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.
Melquiades was a patient at that time, he was about 18 years old, and he had a very difficult form of drug-resistant tuberculosis.
All of the gurus in the world, the global health gurus, said it is not cost-effective to treat drug-resistant tuberculosis.
And what I did, I gave him just antibiotics that we care for tuberculosis.
And note, by the way, as you go to the bottom of this, how does it compare to tuberculosis?
So this is the difference between tuberculosis and various kinds of plagues, and you can play detective with this stuff, because you can take a very specific kind of cholera that affected Haiti, and you can look at which country it came from, which region it came from, and probably which soldier took that from that African country to Haiti.
] [ XDR-TB: ] [ extreme drug resistant tuberculosis.
A colleague of mine, now a general practitioner, was sent away to a tuberculosis sanatorium as a little girl, for six months.
She later found out, as a grown-up, that her tests on tuberculosis had been negative all along.
The ancient Greeks knew its consumptive effects as phthisis; the Incans called it chaky oncay; and the English called it tuberculosis.
Today, tuberculosis, or TB, is still one of the world’s biggest infectious killers, causing more deaths than malaria or even HIV and AIDS.
Typically, TB bacteria called mycobacterium tuberculosis, are airborne.
If so, mycobacterium tuberculosis will reproduce inside those macrophages, and form colonies in the surrounding lung tissue.
During this period, tuberculosis was considered a ‘romantic disease,' because it tended to affect poverty- stricken artists and poets– those with weaker immune systems.
That's more than those deaths caused by HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria or diarrhea.
In the grasslands of Mauritania, a gazelle suffering from tuberculosis takes its last breath.
And the tuberculosis doesn’t stand a chance at infecting the vultures.
She herself was suffering from HIV; she was suffering from tuberculosis.
In this case, increasing resistance to tuberculosis.
The first hint of a possible relationship between Tay-Sachs and tuberculosis came in the 1970s, when researchers published data showing that among the Eastern European-born grandparents of a sample of American Ashkenazi children born with Tay-Sachs, tuberculosis was an exceedingly rare cause of death.
The data hinted that the persistence of the Tay-Sachs mutation among Ashkenazi Jews might be explained by the benefits of being a carrier in an environment where tuberculosis was prevalent.
Ideal conditions for the tuberculosis bacterium to thrive.
I began documenting the close connection between HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis.
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