• Tuberculosis

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  • Author: Koshechkin V.A.
  • Lang: English
  • Writing: English
  • Resource type: textbook
  • Number of pages: 77 p
  • Publishing: ГЭОТАР-Медиа
  • Year of publication: 2007
  • Published: Москва

Book description


  Tuberculosis (from Latin, Tuberculum – tubercle) – general infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. From the Greek word (phthisis – consumption –“exhaustion of a body” the word phthisiology is derived – scientific study of tuberculosis. 
The numerous historical documents and medical data testify to universal distribution of tuberculosis in the far past. The most ancient discovery indicating tubercular disease among people, settled in the ancient times in Europe, belongs to Bartels. In 1904 at inspection of the skeleton, found near to Heidelberg, of the man living in stone century (approximately for 5000 B. 
C.), he has established a tubercular defeat of chest vertebra with hump formation.