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  2. Tuberculosis - Wikipedia

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    Latent TB is treated with either isoniazid or rifampin alone, or a combination of isoniazid with either rifampicin or rifapentine. [140] [141] [142] The treatment takes three to nine months depending on the medications used. [75] [140] [143] [142] People with latent infections are treated to prevent them from progressing to active TB disease ...

  3. Tuberculosis surpasses COVID-19 as deadliest infectious ... - AOL

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    Tuberculosis is back to being the leading infectious disease killer across the globe, surpassing COVID-19, according to a recent report from the World Health Organization.. Nearly 8.2 million ...

  4. Elimination of tuberculosis - Wikipedia

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    Prospects for tuberculosis control and elimination in a hypothetical high-burden country, starting in 2015. Tuberculosis has been a curable illness since the 1940s when the first drugs became available, although multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant TB present an increasing challenge. [5]

  5. Latent tuberculosis - Wikipedia

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    "A person with TB disease may feel perfectly healthy or may only have a cough from time to time." [12] However, these symptoms do not guarantee tuberculosis, and they may not exist at all, yet the patient may still have active tuberculosis. A person with symptoms listed may have active tuberculosis, and the person should immediately see a ...

  6. Tuberculosis cases are way up in Worcester: Should ... - AOL

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    TB can turn fatal: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report a total of 602 TB-related deaths nationally in 2021, the latest year for which mortality numbers are available.

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  8. Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis - Wikipedia

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    MDR-TB caused an estimated 600,000 new TB cases and 240,000 deaths in 2016 and MDR-TB accounts for 4.1% of all new TB cases and 19% of previously treated cases worldwide. [13] Globally, most MDR-TB cases occur in South America, Southern Africa, India, China, and the former Soviet Union.

  9. Mycobacterium tuberculosis - Wikipedia

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    Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb), also known as Koch's bacillus, is a species of pathogenic bacteria in the family Mycobacteriaceae and the causative agent of tuberculosis. [1] [2] First discovered in 1882 by Robert Koch, M. tuberculosis has an unusual, waxy coating on its cell surface primarily due to the presence of mycolic acid.