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In 1768, Robert Whytt gave the first clinical description of tuberculosis meningitis [53] and, in 1779, Percivall Pott, an English surgeon, described the vertebral lesions that carry his name. [43] In 1761, Leopold Auenbrugger , an Austrian physician, developed the percussion method of diagnosing tuberculosis, [ 54 ] a method rediscovered some ...
Tuberculosis has been known by many names from the technical to the familiar. [202] Phthisis (φθίσις) is the Greek word for consumption, an old term for pulmonary tuberculosis; [7] around 460 BCE, Hippocrates described phthisis as a disease of dry seasons. [203] The abbreviation TB is short for tubercle bacillus.
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.
Richard Morton. Richard Morton (1637–1698) was an English physician who was the first to state that tubercles were always present in the tuberculosis disease of the lungs. In Morton's time, this wasting disease was termed consumption, or by its Greek name of phthisis.
The name is a reference to the rising and falling of the patient's temperature. White Plague: Tuberculosis [5] The name refers to the pallor of patients with "consumption" (severe tuberculosis). Woolsorter's disease: Anthrax [22] Refers to people who tended to contract the disease (from the sheep) 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)
Is there a tuberculosis outbreak? Unfortunately, yes, there is a tuberculosis outbreak happening in Kansas, according to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. The department has ...
The number of people infected with tuberculosis, including the kind resistant to drugs, rose globally for the first time in years, according to a report issued Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022 by the World ...
Tuberculosis (TB) vaccines are vaccinations intended for the prevention of tuberculosis. Immunotherapy as a defence against TB was first proposed in 1890 by Robert Koch . [ 1 ] As of 2021, the only effective tuberculosis vaccine in common use is the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine, first used on humans in 1921.