yes, people still go into hospital with TB, it is rare, but still occurs.
Tatsuro Iwasaki has written: 'Tuberculosis problem in Asian countries' -- subject(s): Prevention, Tuberculosis
bacterium
Of course !Tb is highly contagious, stay away from anyone who has it.
Tuberculosis was a deadly disease till the advent of streptomycin in 1947. Then you had very good drugs invented for tuberculosis, one by one till late sixties. The disease became completely curable. But now you have drug resistance noted for tuberculosis also. With HIV infection in hand the problem has complicated with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis. In such cases you can have tuberculosis, deadly.
Tuberculosis or consumption was a very common problem. Many of the cities had polluted air from burning coal. It got the name consumption because of the weight loss.
The scientific name for tuberculosis is Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
i think it is the similar species of tuberculosis.
difference between miliary tuberculosis and tuberculosis
The pathogen that causes tuberculosis is Mycobacterium.
Tuberculosis was -- and still is -- caused by the tubercule bacillus. TB is rapidly becoming a major health problem again, and has mutated so that many of the antibiotics that formerly worked to kill the infection no longer are effective.
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Abdominal tuberculosis is ranked sixth in extra pulmonary tuberculosis.