Tuberculosis

Health / Disease / Tuberculosis: A chronic infectious disease usually caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis in humans.
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Mycobacterium Tuberculosis

Health / Disease / Mycobacterium Tuberculosis: The slow-growing bacterium that is the causative agent of tuberculosis in humans. MORE

Bovine Tuberculosis

Business / Agriculture / Bovine Tuberculosis: A highly contagious disease of cattle that causes severe economic losses, especially in dairy herds. The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service quarantines infected herds and works with producers MORE

BCG

Health / Disease / BCG: Bacille Calmette-Gu?©rin (BCG) is a vaccine against tuberculosis that is prepared from a strain of the attenuated (weakened) live bovine tuberculosis bacillus, Mycobacterium bovis. MORE

Communicable Disease

Business / Human Resources (HR) / Communicable Disease: Any condition that is transmitted directly or indirectly to a person from an infected person or animal through the agency of an intermediate animal, host or vector or through the inanimate environment MORE

MDR-TB

Health / Disease / MDR-TB: Multi-drug resistant Tuberculosis ?€“ any strain of TB that is resistant to both of the two main first line antibiotic drugs. MORE

Consumption

Health / Disease / Consumption: A wasting away of the body; formerly applied especially to pulmonary tuberculosis MORE