• Tuberculosis Textbook

  • 1917 | 282
  • ISBN: 978-9943-353-85-5
  • Author: V.A.Koshechkin
  • Lang: English
  • Writing: lotin
  • Resource type: training guide
  • Number of pages: 77
  • Publishing: ГЭОТАР-Медиа
  • Year of publication: 2007

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.