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Captain of All These Men Of Death: The History of Tuberculosis in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Ireland. (Clio Medica/the Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine) by Greta Jones, 2001-01-01
Ending Neglect: The Elimination of Tuberculosis in the United States by Committee on the Elimination of Tuberculosis in the United States, Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, et all 2000-09-15
Contagion and Confinement: Controlling Tuberculosis along the Skid Road by Professor Barron H. Lerner PhD, 1998-11-16
La Ciudad Impura: Salud, Tuberculosis y Cultura En Buenos Aires, 1870-1950 (Spanish Edition) by Diego Armus, 2007-01
Must We All Die?: Alaska's Enduring Struggle with Tuberculosis by Robert Fortuine, 2005-03-01
From Chaos to Coercion: Detention and the Control of Tuberculosis by Richard J. Coker, 2000-02-19
Pioneers in Medicine and Their Impact on Tuberculosis by Thomas M. Daniel, 2001-01-21
Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusion: A History of Public Health and Migration to Los Angeles (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine) by EmilyK. Abel, 2007-10-08
Implementing the WHO Stop TB Strategy: A Handbook for National Tuberculosis Control Programmes by A. Piot, P. Chaulet, 2009-04
The Tuberculosis Movement: A Public Health Campaign in the Progressive Era (Contributions in Medical Studies) by Michael E. Teller, 1988-04-21
An Historical Chronology of Tuberculosis by Richard Michael Burke, 1955
The Tuberculosis Survival Handbook by Paul Mayho, 2006-03-22
City Of Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium: Its History And Provisions (1915) by Theodore Bernard Sachs, 2010-05-22
De Sterfte Aan Tuberculosis Pulmonum In Nederland: 1875-1895 (1897) (Mandarin Chinese Edition) by Berendinus Johannes Femia Bavinck, 2010-02-23

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AEGiS-NMAIN: TB (Tuberculosis)
New Mexico AIDS Info Net click here to return to new mexico aids info net main menu TB (tuberculosis) New Mexico AIDS InfoNet Revised January 14, 2002
http://www.aegis.com/pubs/nmap/515-tb.html

Extractions: Tuberculosis (TB) is an infection caused by bacteria. Tuberculosis usually affects the lungs, but sometimes can affect other organs. The name tuberculosis comes from tubercles. These are small, hard lumps that form when the immune system builds a wall around the TB bacteria. There are two kinds of active TB. Primary TB occurs soon after a person is first exposed to TB. Reactivation TB occurs in people who were previously exposed to TB. If their immune system is weakened, TB can break out of the tubercles and cause active disease. Most of the cases of TB in people with HIV disease are due to reactivation of a previous TB infection. Active TB can cause the following symptoms: coughing for more than 3 weeks, weight loss, constant fatigue, night sweats, and fevers. These are very much like the symptoms caused by Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) , but TB can occur at much higher CD4+ levels TB can be transmitted through the air, when someone with TB coughs or sneezes. You can develop TB easily if you have advanced HIV disease, or if you are exposed to a very infectious form of TB. You can become infected with TB at any T-cell level.
OSH Answers: Tuberculosis
What are the signs and symptoms of tuberculosis? How is tuberculosis transmitted?Should tuberculosis be an occupational concern? tuberculosis.
http://www.ccohs.ca/oshanswers/diseases/tubercul.html

Extractions: What is tuberculosis? Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by a germ called Mycobacterium tuberculosis . The germ usually causes an infection in the lungs, but sometimes it can affect other parts of the body. What are the signs and symptoms of tuberculosis? The signs or symptoms of tuberculosis are common to many other diseases. They are: How is tuberculosis transmitted? Tuberculosis is transmitted through the air from exposure to germs in the saliva of infected persons and sputum coughed up from their lungs. When an infected person coughs or sneezes, tiny droplets which contain the germs are released and can be inhaled by employees or anyone in the area. The germs inhaled through the nose and mouth reach the windpipe (trachea) and the dividing air tubes (bronchi) that lead to the lungs. The germs can spread from the initial location in the lungs to other parts of the body through the bloodstream. Within weeks from infection, the immune system which is the infection control mechanism of the human body, reacts to the germs and usually prevents them from multiplying and spreading. Not everyone infected develops the disease. In fact, about 90% of infected persons remain infected for life without having any symptoms.
Ron's Official Waverly Hills Website
Pages with photographs, history, and current status of the Waverly Hills tuberculosis sanatorium near Louisville, Kentucky.
http://www.waverlyhillstbsanatorium.com/
UTE - Unitat De Tuberculosi Experimental
Equipo multidisciplinar que investiga la tuberculosis y sus modelos experimentales. Informaci³n de la enfermedad y del bacilo causal.
http://ute.galenicom.com/Castellano/UTEINDEX2.htm
Communicable Disease Fact Sheet
tuberculosis. Version en español. (TB). tuberculosis (TB) Further Information Wadsworth Center for Laboratories and Research. What is tuberculosis?
http://www.health.state.ny.us/nysdoh/communicable_diseases/en/tb.htm

Extractions: Communicable Disease (TB) Tuberculosis (TB) Further Information Wadsworth Center for Laboratories and Research What is tuberculosis? Tuberculosis is a bacterial disease usually affecting the lungs (pulmonary TB). Other parts of the body can also be affected, for example lymph nodes, kidneys, bones, joints, etc., (extrapulmonary TB). Approximately 1800 cases are reported each year in NYS. Who gets tuberculosis? Tuberculosis can affect anyone of any age. People with weakened immune systems are at increased risk. How is tuberculosis spread? Tuberculosis is spread through the air when a person with untreated pulmonary TB coughs or sneezes. Prolonged exposure to a person with untreated TB usually is necessary for infection to occur. What is the difference between latent tuberculosis infection and tuberculosis disease? Latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) means the person has the TB germ in their body (usually lungs), but has yet to develop obvious systoms. In latent TB, the person has a significant reaction to the Mantoux skin test with no symptoms of tuberculosis, and no TB organisms found in the sputum. Tuberculosis disease indicates the person has symptoms, a significant reaction to a Mantoux skin test and organisms found in the sputum. In order to spread the TB germs, a person must have TB disease. Having latent TB infection is not enough to spread the germ. Tuberculosis may last for a lifetime as an infection, never developing into disease.
CNN.com - CDC: Tuberculosis Cases Hit All-time Low - Mar. 21, 2003
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/conditions/03/21/cdc.tuberculosis.ap/index.html

Extractions: The Web CNN.com Home Page World U.S. Weather ... Special Reports SERVICES Video E-Mail Services CNNtoGO SEARCH Web CNN.com Story Tools ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) The number of tuberculosis cases in the United States last year dropped by nearly 6 percent to an all-time low, federal officials said Thursday. HEALTH LIBRARY Health Library Men's Health Women's Health Care for the whole family The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said 15,078 cases of TB were reported last year, a 5.7 percent drop from 15,989 in 2001. The decline was attributed to better public health prevention services. The CDC also said the national TB rate 5.2 cases per 100,000 people is the lowest recorded in the United States since reporting began in 1953. However, federal health officials said, TB rates among blacks are nearly eight times higher than for whites and are twice that of Hispanics. "Closing the gap in tuberculosis rates is essential if tuberculosis is to be eliminated in our country," said Dr. Kenneth Castro, director of the division of tuberculosis elimination at the CDC.
Virtual Hospital: University Of Iowa Family Practice Handbook, Fourth Edition: I
10. Infectious Disease tuberculosis. Philip See related Provider Topics Infections, Lungs and Breathing or tuberculosis. See related
http://www.vh.org/adult/provider/familymedicine/FPHandbook/Chapter10/03-10.html

Extractions: TB Screening . Recommended for: Close contacts of those with known or suspected TB. Persons infected with HIV IV drug users or users of other illicit drugs. Chronically ill patients with conditions or diseases that increase the risk of progressing from latent to active TB: DM, high-dose steroids, immunosuppressive therapy, chronic renal failure, lymphoma, leukemia, other cancer, weight loss to more than 10% below ideal weight, silicosis, gastrectomy, and jejunoileal bypass. Foreign-born persons and those arriving within the last 5 years from countries that have had a high incidence of TB. Residents and employees of high-risk institutions : correctional facilities, nursing homes, mental institutions, and homeless shelters. Health care workers serving high-risk patients.
Tuberculosis-Información Básica
Translate this page tuberculosis. Descripción, Distribución. Agente Infeccioso, Modos de transmisión. Reservorio, Periodo de Incubación. Periodo de transmisibilidad,
http://www.netsalud.sa.cr/ms/estadist/enferme/tuberc.htm
Courier-Journal.com: Places In Time
CourierJournal article about the history of Waverly Hills tuberculosis Sanatorium in Louisville, Kentucky, and its neighborhood.
http://www.courier-journal.com/reweb/community/placetime/southend-waverly.html

Extractions: The Courier-Journal n the first half of this century, the Waverly Hills Tuberculosis Sanatorium gave a lot to the neighborhood below it. Cinders from its boiler room paved a portion of East Pages Lane beginning at Dixie Highway. And almost every family near the intersection found some employment there. The hospital was built on a mountain ridge off Dixie Highway in 1911 through the efforts of several prominent Louisvillians who were concerned about the spread and treatment of tuberculosis. Over the years, the neighborhood around it acquired the name. But the hospital no longer operates there, and these days the area is known as Waverly Hills to only a very few. Most of the hospital buildings that still stand are vacant and nearly hidden from the road below. However, a few of the houses once used by doctors are now private residences on East Pages Lane. The entrances to the hospital have been closed off, but residents say teen-agers walk up there anyway. Charles Severs, a Valley Station physician who now owns the main hospital building, has reported extensive vandalism.
Bacteriology 330 Lecture Topics: Tuberculosis
Bacteriology at UWMadison Bacteriology 330 Home Page. Bacteriology 330 Lecture Topics tuberculosis. tuberculosis DEATHS CAPTAIN.
http://www.bact.wisc.edu/Bact330/lecturetb

Extractions: To RETURN OF THE BASICS: HUMANITYS COUNTER-OFFENSIVE In 1984, the Public Health Service reported that the number of tuberculosis cases reported annually in 1953 had declined by 74 percent. It was widely believed that modern medicine had all but eradicated this potentially fatal disease. The wake-up call alerting the public to the resurgence of tuberculosis came between 1985 and 1993, when the number of cases reported in the United States began to increase steadily and dramatically. Today TB is back, and if proper measures are not taken to educate people about this preventable disease, infection rates will continue to rise at an alarming rate. Someone is infected with tuberculosis every second.
CNN.com - Health - Vaccine May Work Against Tuberculosis - November 30, 2000
http://cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/11/30/tuberculosis.vaccine.reut/index.html

Extractions: WEB SERVICES: WASHINGTON (Reuters) A new and improved vaccine against tuberculosis might be ready for testing in people as early as next year, researchers said Wednesday. They said their vaccine, based on a formulation nearly a century old, was dramatically better and protected all tested guinea pigs against disease.
Tuberculosis
Bacteriology at UWMadison Bacteriology 330 Home Page. tuberculosis. tuberculosis Infection vs Disease. TB Infection, TB disease in lungs. M.TB. present, M.TB.
http://www.bact.wisc.edu/Bact330/lecturetuberculosis

Extractions: Bacteriology 330 Home Page Tuberculosis is the leading cause of death in the world from a single infectious disease, although surprisingly little is known of the mechanisms of its pathogenesis and protection from it. After a century of decline in the United States, tuberculosis is increasing, and multible drug-resistant strains have emerged. This increase in cases is attributable to changes in the social structure in cities, the HIV epidemic, and a failure in some cities to improve public treatment programs. Mycobacterium tuberculosis Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the etiologic agent of tuberculosis (TB) in humans. Humans are the only reservoir for the bacterium. Mycobacterium bovis is the etiologic agent of TB in cows and rarely in humans. Both cows and humans can serve as reservoirs. Humans can also be infected by the consumption of unpasteurized milk. This route of transmission can lead to the development of extrapulmonary TB, exemplified in history by bone infections that led to hunched backs. Other human pathogens belonging to the Mycobacterium genus include Mycobacterium avium which causes a TB-like disease especially prevalent in AIDS patients, and
HPA - Infections | Topics A-Z | Tuberculosis (TB)
To enlarge text select view then text size on your browser. This site uses Adobe Acrobat Download Adobe Acrobat Download here. tuberculosis.
http://www.hpa.org.uk/infections/topics_az/tb/menu.htm

Extractions: Download here Tuberculosis (TB) causes more deaths worldwide than any other single infectious disease and was declared a 'global emergency' by the World Health Organization in 1993. TB is usually curable with a combination of specific antibiotics, but treatment must be continued for at least six months.
U.S. Tuberculosis Cases Fall To All-time Low
http://cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/conditions/06/12/tuberculosis.ap/index.html
Bmj.com Collected Resources : Tuberculosis
tuberculosis. Citations 110 of 46 total displayed. Most recent content (3 Apr 2004) News Medical charity criticises shortcomings
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/collection/Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis
De qué estamos hablando? La tuberculosis (TB) es la infección de mayor prevalencia en el mundo.
http://www.fisterra.com/guias2/tuberculosis.htm

Extractions: Atención Primaria en la Red Principal Guías Clínicas Índice alfabético Índice especialidades Elaborada con opinión de expertos y revisión posterior por colegas Parcialmente financiado con una ayuda del Servicio Galego de Saude a la Sociedad Gallega de Medicina Interna ( sin número de identificación). Conflicto de intereses: Ninguno declarado [A ][B ][C Grado de Recomendación Tuberculosis Guías Clínicas 2003; 3 (25) Autores García Pais MJ *, Rigueiro Veloso MT*, Casariego Vales E*, Corredoira Sánchez JC*, Varela Otero J*, García Rodríguez JF** * Servicio de Medicina Interna. Complejo Hospitalario Xeral- Calde, Lugo. España
CNN.com - Scientists Discover Tuberculosis Strategy For Hiding In Body - August
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/08/17/tuberculosis.trick.ap/index.html

Extractions: WEB SERVICES: (AP) Scientists have identified a key trick that tuberculosis bacteria use to lie low in the body for years before going on the attack a discovery that could open a whole new approach to fighting a disease that kills more than 2 million people around the world each year. "In terms of public health, there is a long way to go. This is an important step in the right direction," said Dr. William Bishai, professor of international health and medicine at Johns Hopkins University.
Tuberculosis - Lungs: Pulmonary And Respiratory Health And Medical Information P
What is tuberculosis? tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by bacteria whose scientific name is Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
http://www.medicinenet.com/Tuberculosis/article.htm

Extractions: Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by bacteria whose scientific name is Mycobacterium tuberculosis. TB most commonly affects the lungs but also can involve most any organ of the body. Many years ago, this disease used to be called "Consumption" because without effective treatment, these patients often would waste away. Today, of course, tuberculosis usually can be treated successfully with antibiotics. How does a person get TB? A person can become infected with tuberculosis bacteria when he or she inhales minute particles of infected sputum from the air. The bacteria get into the air when someone who has a tuberculosis lung infection coughs, sneezes, shouts, or spits (which is common in some cultures). People who are nearby can then possibly breathe the bacteria into their lungs. You don't get TB by just touching the clothes or shaking the hands of someone who is infected. Tuberculosis is spread (transmitted) primarily from person to person during close contact by breathing infected air. There is a form of tuberculosis, however, that is transmitted by drinking unpasteurized milk. Related bacteria, called Mycobacterium bovis, cause this form of TB. It previously was a major cause of TB in children, but rarely causes TB now since most milk is pasteurized (a heating process that kills the bacteria).
DANTB Home
Information about the organization, initiatives, publications, a resource directory as well as the details about the disease itself.
http://www.dantb.org
California Tuberculosis Controllers Association
WELCOME to the website for the California tuberculosis Controllers Association (CTCA). NEW!! California tuberculosis Controllers Association.
http://www.ctca.org/

Extractions: MENU Who's Who TB Control Guidelines State Regulations Conference Information ... Links WELCOME to the website for the California Tuberculosis Controllers Association (CTCA). Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease that is spread from person to person through the air. TB generally affects the lungs. Most people think that TB is a disease of the past an illness that no longer threatens us today. However, each year, 8 million people around the world become sick with TB and there are over 2 million TB-related deaths worldwide. The California Tuberculosis Controllers Association (CTCA) is an affiliate of the California Conference of Local Health Officers (CCLHO), and is comprised of local health agency officials directly responsible for the control of tuberculosis (TB) in their respective communities. The TB Control Branch of the California Department of Health Services maintains an ongoing close relationship with the CTCA. For more information on CTCA, click here CTCA Information SAVE THE DATES April 29-30, 2004 CTCA Conference

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