Tuberculosis is an infectious disease usually caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) bacteria.
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11 Facts About Tuberculosis
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Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but it can affect other parts of the body.
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Tuberculosis is spread from one person to the next through the air when people who have active TB in their lungs cough, spit, speak, or sneeze.
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Tuberculosis is classified as one of the granulomatous inflammatory diseases.
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Tuberculosis incidence is seasonal, with peaks occurring every spring and summer.
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Tuberculosis is closely linked to both overcrowding and malnutrition, making it one of the principal diseases of poverty.
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Tuberculosis received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1905 for this discovery.
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Tuberculosis caused widespread public concern in the 19th and early 20th centuries as the disease became common among the urban poor.
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Tuberculosis has been known by many names from the technical to the familiar.
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Tuberculosis was for centuries associated with poetic and artistic qualities among those infected, and was known as "the romantic disease".
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Tuberculosis formed an often-reused theme in literature, as in Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, set in a sanatorium; in music, as in Van Morrison's song "T.
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