Tuberculosis
| Tuberculosis | |
|---|---|
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| Chest X-ray o a person wi advanced tuberculosis: Infection in baith lungs is marked bi white arrae-heids, an the formation o a cavity is marked bi black arraes. | |
| Clessification an freemit resoorces | |
| Specialty | Infectious disease, Pulmonology |
| ICD-10 | A15–A19 |
| ICD-9-CM | 010–018 |
| OMIM | 607948 |
| DiseasesDB | 8515 |
| MedlinePlus | 000077 000624 |
| eMedicine | med/2324 emerg/618 radio/411 |
| Patient UK | Tuberculosis |
| MeSH | D014376 |
Tuberculosis, MTB, or TB (short for tubercle bacillus), in the past an aa cried phthisis, phthisis pulmonalis, or consumption, is a widespread, an in mony cases fatal, infectious disease caused bi various strains o mycobacteria, uisually Mycobacterium tuberculosis.[1]
References[eedit | eedit soorce]
- ↑ Kumar V, Abbas AK, Fausto N, Mitchell RN (2007). Robbins Basic Pathology (8th ed.). Saunders Elsevier. pp. 516–522. ISBN 978-1-4160-2973-1.
