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Antituberculosis Definition from Medicine Dictionaries & Glossaries
[AN-tee-too-ber-kyoo-LOW-sis]
Describes a drug or effect that works against tuberculosis (a contagious bacterial infection that usually affects the lungs).
A Service of the National Cancer Institute.Describes a drug or effect that works against tuberculosis (a contagious bacterial infection that usually affects the lungs).
Antituberculosis Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Tuberculosis, MTB, or TB (short for tubercle bacillus) is a common, and in many cases lethal, infectious disease caused by various strains of mycobacteria, usually Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis typically attacks the lungs but can also affect other parts of the body. It is spread through the air when people who have an active TB infection cough, sneeze, or otherwise transmit their saliva through the air. Most infections are asymptomatic and latent, but about one in ten latent infections eventually progresses to active disease which, if left untreated, kills more than 50% of those so infected.
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