Tuberculosis is an infectious, communicable disease caused by a germ. It primarily attacks the lungs, but can affect other parts of the body such as the bones, kidneys and brain. Usually TB gives no early warning signals.
Symptoms may not be noticed at first or even at all. However, if left untreated, and your [...]

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Case detection
1. What is the role of case detection in tuberculosis control?1 F. Luelmo 3
2. What is a case of tuberculosis?1 F. Luelmo 5
3. What is the role of sputum microscopy in patients attending health facilities? F. Luelmo 7
4. How many bacilli are present in a sputum specimen found positive by smear microscopy? K. Toman [...]

Compliance with the drug regimen is crucial. Mycobacterium tuberculosis has shown a propensity to mutate toward drug resistance, and defaulting patients almost invariably relapse, often with a drug-resistant strain. Re-treatment requires more expensive drugs, producing a greater financial burden for either the patient or public health care system. Moreover, defaulting5 patients remain infectious and constitute [...]

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Culture-negative Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Adults Summary Radiographic Evidence of Prior Tuberculosis: Introduction and Background Inactive Tuberculosis
Pregnancy and Breastfeeding
Organization and Supervision of Treatment
Renal Insufficiency and End-stage Renal
Role of the Health Department Disease
Promoting Adherence Hepatic Disease
Other Associated Disorders
Drugs in Current Use
First-Line Drugs Management of Relapse, Treatment Failure,
Second-Line Drugs and Drug Resistance Relapse
Principles of Antituberculosis Chemotherapy
Treatment Failure
Combination Chemotherapy [...]

The treatment of active tuberculosis (TB) patients with effective anti-TB chemotherapy is the highest priority in TB control. Successful treatment benefits both the patient and the public at large, as infectious cases are cured and sources of infection are removed from the community. California state health and safety laws (Health and Safety Code Sections 121365-121369) [...]

Feline leukemia is a disease which tears at the immune system of the cat, making him more susceptible to illness and disease. A cancer of the white blood cells, feline leukemia is actually a virus, which travels between cats. It does not infect dogs, humans, or any other species of animal.
Feline leukemia is transmitted between [...]

Cytogenetic analysis of human mesothelioma cell lines, pleural exudate cells or biopsy material has revealed karyotypic abnormalities in the vast majority of cases [5–7]. In vitro studies suggest that mesothelial cells are particularly susceptible to chromosomal damage after asbestos exposure [8]. The chromosomal changes may be initiated by the asbestos particles themselves, either as a [...]

8:45 – 8:55 Welcome and Opening RemarksRaffit Hassan, MD, National Cancer Institute
8:55 – 9:00 Introductory CommentsLee Helman, MD, Scientific Director, National Cancer Institute
9:00 – 9:30 Opening SpeakerIra Pastan, MD, National Cancer Institute Identification and characterization of mesothelin as target for cancer therapy
9:30 – 10:45 Scientific Session I: Advances in mesothelioma biology Chair: Michele Carbone, MD, [...]

Tuberculosis (TB) has a long history. It was present before the beginning of recorded history and has left its mark on human creativity, music, art, and literature; and has influenced the advance of biomedical sciences and healthcare. Its causative agent, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, may have killed more persons than any other microbial pathogen (Daniel 2006).
Abbreviations
2-DE: two [...]

Clinicians should routinely assess HIV-infected patients’ smoking status and readiness to quit.
Clinicians should identify and discuss barriers to quitting smoking for HIV-infected smokers who are not interested in stopping in the immediate future but may consider it at a later time.
Readiness to quit may be assessed by asking whether the patient is interested in quitting [...]

What is antibiotic resistance?
Each time we take antibiotics, some bacteria are killed. But some learn how to defend themselves against antibiotics. These bacteria are called “resistant.” If your child takes antibiotics when they are not needed, your child and others in your community are more likely to get infected with these resistant bacteria. Antibiotic resistance [...]

Antibiotic resistance is a serious and growing public health problem.1 As resistance to antibiotics develops in disease-producing bacteria, it can become difficult to treat diseases that were formerly treatable with antibiotics, and this can have deadly consequences. Treating antibioticresistant infections often requires the use of more expensive drugs and can result in longer hospital stays. [...]