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  2. Tuberculosis - Wikipedia

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    However, most infections with M. tuberculosis do not cause disease, [169] and 90–95% of infections remain asymptomatic. [87] In 2012, an estimated 8.6 million chronic cases were active. [170] In 2010, 8.8 million new cases of tuberculosis were diagnosed, and 1.20–1.45 million deaths occurred (most of these occurring in developing countries).

  3. Latent tuberculosis - Wikipedia

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    In the U.S., physicians talk about latent tuberculosis treatment because the medication does not actually prevent infection: the person is already infected and the medication is intended to prevent existing silent infection from becoming active disease. There are no convincing reasons to prefer one term over the other.

  4. Wikipedia : Osmosis/Tuberculosis

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    Treatment of latent TB infection typically involves using a single drug for a prolonged period of time—the most common approach is Isoniazid for 9 months. Treatment of active TB disease is typically a combination of antibiotics, which results in patients being non-infectious to others usually within a few weeks.

  5. Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis - Wikipedia

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    MDR-TB can become resistant to the major second-line TB drug groups: fluoroquinolones (moxifloxacin, ofloxacin) and injectable aminoglycoside or polypeptide drugs (amikacin, capreomycin, kanamycin). When MDR-TB is resistant to at least one drug from each group, it is classified as extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB). [8]

  6. Mycobacterium bovis - Wikipedia

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    The Animal Health Board operates a nationwide programme of cattle testing and possum control, with the goal of eradicating M. bovis from wild vector species across 2.5 million hectares – or one-quarter – of New Zealand's at-risk areas, by 2026, and eventually eradicating the disease entirely. [11] The TB-free New Zealand programme is ...

  7. Long Beach health officials declare tuberculosis outbreak a ...

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    Long Beach Health officials declared a public health emergency on Thursday afternoon after one person died and nine others were hospitalized due to a tuberculosis outbreak. The spread was ...

  8. Mycobacterium tuberculosis - Wikipedia

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    M. tuberculosis can also grow on the lipid cholesterol as a sole source of carbon, and genes involved in the cholesterol use pathway(s) have been validated as important during various stages of the infection lifecycle of M. tuberculosis, especially during the chronic phase of infection when other nutrients are likely not available. [47]

  9. Pott's disease - Wikipedia

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    As one type of tuberculosis infections, individuals can’t entirely prevent Pott’s Disease, but we are able to take steps to reduce the risk of TB (tuberculosis) infection by avoiding prolonged, close contact with someone who has an active TB (tuberculosis) infection and getting tested regularly for TB (tuberculosis) if you're at higher risk ...