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Key facts

Medical condition.name

Tuberculosis

Medical condition.image

Tuberculosis-x-ray-1.jpg

Medical condition.alt

Chest X-ray of a person with advanced tuberculosis

Medical condition.caption

Chest X-ray of a person with advanced tuberculosis: Infection in both lungs is marked by white arrowheads, and the formation of a cavity is marked by black arrows.

Medical condition.field

Infectious disease, pulmonology

Medical condition.synonyms

Phthisis, phthisis pulmonalis, consumption, white death, great white plague

Medical condition.symptoms

Chronic cough, fever, cough with bloody mucus, weight loss. Latent TB infection is asymptomatic

Medical condition.causes

Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Medical condition.risks

Immunodeficiency

Medical condition.diagnosis

CXR, microbial culture, TB skin test, interferon gamma release assay

Medical condition.differential

Pneumonia, histoplasmosis, sarcoidosis, coccidioidomycosis

Medical condition.prevention

Screening those at high risk, treatment of those infected, vaccination with bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG)

Medical condition.treatment

Antibiotics

Medical condition.frequency

10.7 million new infections per year (2024)

Medical condition.deaths

1.23 million per year

via Wikipedia infobox

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• [Cutaneous tuberculosis].Revue medicale de Liege · 1952CARPENTIER E
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• [Pseudotumor pancreatic tuberculosis].La Tunisie medicale · 2013Ayadi S, Daghfous A, Maghrebi H et al.
• [Histopathology of tuberculosis. Approximation to the clinical course of lung lesions in animal experimentation models induced with aerosols].ReviewArchivos de bronconeumologia · 2000Cardona PJ, Ausina VDOI: 10.1016/s0300-2896(15)30087-9
• [Paraganglionic tuberculosis].Revue de la tuberculose · 1946BRUN J

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

disease

Subclass of

emerging communicable disease

Image

Tuberculosis-x-ray-1.jpg

Number of deaths

1700000

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