21. MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Pulmonary Tuberculosis TB; tuberculosis pulmonary; Consumption. Definition Return to top. Pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) is a contagious bacterial infection caused by Mycobacterium http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000077.htm

@import url(/medlineplus/images/advanced.css); Skip navigation Medical Encyclopedia Other encyclopedia topics: A-Ag Ah-Ap Aq-Az B-Bk ... Z Pulmonary tuberculosis Contents of this page: Illustrations Alternative names Definition Causes, incidence, and risk factors ... Prevention Illustrations Tuberculosis in the kidney Tuberculosis in the lung Tuberculosis, advanced - chest X-rays Pulmonary nodule - front view chest X-ray ... Respiratory system Alternative names Return to top TB; Tuberculosis - pulmonary; Consumption Definition Return to top Pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) is a contagious bacterial infection caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis . The lungs are primarily involved, but the infection can spread to other organs. Causes, incidence, and risk factors Return to top Tuberculosis can develop after inhaling droplets sprayed into the air from a cough or sneeze by someone infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis . The disease is characterized by the development of granulomas (granular tumors) in the infected tissues. The usual site of the disease is the lungs, but other organs may be involved. The primary stage of the infection is usually asymptomatic (without symptoms). In the United States, the majority of people will recover from primary TB infection without further evidence of the disease. Primary pulmonary TB develops in the minority of people whose immune systems do not successfully contain the primary infection. In this case, the disease may occur within weeks after the primary infection. TB may also lie dormant for years and reappear after the initial infection is contained.

22. MedlinePlus Tuberculosis tuberculosis http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

23. Stop TB The Stop tuberculosis Partnership, aims to push TB up the world political agenda. It focuses on expanding the use of DOTS, forming a drug facility to http://www.stoptb.org/

24. The Specter Of Tuberculosis In recognition of the importance of TB in terms of global health the Nature Medicine web focus brings you a comprehensive and authoritative overview of the field with Commentaries written by experts in the TB field especially for the site, summaries of the latest research articles, and Nature Medicine papers. http://www.nature.com/nm/special_focus/tb/

25. Welcome To The Charles P. Felton National Tuberculosis Center The goal is to meet the challenge of TB in Harlem by providing innovative prevention, treatment, and training programs to members community http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

26. WHO Tuberculosis tuberculosis. This website describes the work of the Stop TB Department. tuberculosis (TB) is primarily an illness of the respiratory system, and is spread http://www.who.int/tb/

27. Home Page :::: Health & Development Initiative : A Not For Profit Organisation Provides tuberculosis related news, research data from the country, and publishes a drug bulletin. http://www.healthinitiative.org/html/index.htm

World AIDS Day 2004 World TB Day 2005 World Health Day 2005 TB news from India ... About Us World Health Days 2002 World Health Day 2003 World Health Day 2004 World Health Day 2005 World Health Day Rational Drug Use Drug Panorama Independent Bulletins Drug Info Resources Field Reports HDI Survey Media Resources Media Awareness Week Links Policies General Policy Advertisement Policy Our Objective Latest Issue TB News from India ... Lessons from Ghana, Kenya and Rwanda by Robert Ritzenthaler Updated DOTS Watch Take the Condom Quiz Brought to you by The Cleveland Clinic Go to the People Connector Website Our most read article We are a partner of the Conference Reports Year 2004 Mitigation of TB and HIV/AIDS in India, 2-3 December 2004,New Delhi XV International AIDS Conference, 11th to 16th July ... 2004, Bangkok, Thailand Year 2003 Symposium on TB and Poverty at IUATLD Meeting, Paris 1st Nov Conference Reports Year 2003 2nd StopTB Partners' Forum, 4-5 December, 2003, New Delhi, India

28. Home Page Charity organisation supporting prevention, treatment and research into respiratory disease both internationally and in Australia. http://www.chata.org.au

var MenuLinkedBy='AllWebMenus [2]', awmBN='524'; awmAltUrl=''; C H A T A Community Health and Tuberculosis Australia is a charity organisation supporting prevention, treatment and research into respiratory disease at a national and international level. CHATA's mission is to develop and support innovative and effective approaches to research and development in lung health and to improve lung health in communities, with emphasis on disadvantaged groups. Nurse training in Kiribati CHATA has completed nurse training in early 2005 at the Tungara Hospital. Click here to learn more. CHATA funded research into an improved TB vaccine One third of the world's population is infected with tuberculosis. It's easy to see the potential benefits that a longer-lasting, more potent vaccine could bring. Click here to learn more. Improving lung health in Indonesia CHATA is funding work to minimise chronic lung disease in the Mimika District in Western Papua. Click here to learn how.

29. Home - American Lung Association Site Oldest voluntary health organization in the United States, with a National Office and constituent and affiliate associations around the country. http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

30. WHO | Tuberculosis tuberculosis (TB) is a contagious disease. Like the common cold, it spreads through the air. Information Resource Centre HIV, tuberculosis and Malaria http://www.who.int/entity/mediacentre/factsheets/fs104/en/

All WHO This site only Home About WHO Countries Health topics ... Contacts Media centre WHO WHO sites Media centre Fact sheets ... printable version Fact sheet N°104 Revised April 2005 Tuberculosis Infection and transmission Tuberculosis (TB) is a contagious disease. Like the common cold, it spreads through the air. Only people who are sick with TB in their lungs are infectious. When infectious people cough, sneeze, talk or spit, they propel TB germs, known as bacilli, into the air. A person needs only to inhale a small number of these to be infected. Left untreated, each person with active TB disease will infect on average between 10 and 15 people every year. But people infected with TB bacilli will not necessarily become sick with the disease. The immune system "walls off" the TB bacilli which, protected by a thick waxy coat, can lie dormant for years. When someone's immune system is weakened, the chances of becoming sick are greater. Someone in the world is newly infected with TB bacilli every second. Overall, one-third of the world's population is currently infected with the TB bacillus.

31. Johns Hopkins Infectious Diseases Information on infectious diseases including hepatitis, STDs, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS treatment, prevention, research, education, and epidemiology. http://hopkins-id.edu/

Other Hopkins Specialties: click here.. The new Johns Hopkins POC-IT HIV Guide is now live. For free registration to the site, please go to www.hopkins-hivguide.org posted 01/14/2005 Access this online decision support tool at http://hopkins-abxguide.org for the most clinically relevant information regarding the use of antibiotics. The database is organized into three categories to facilitate navigation: Diagnosis, pathogen, and antibiotic. Or download practical clinical pearls of information from the website to your own handheld device. Also included are current news items and an interactive question and answer forum. posted 06/24/2003 Please click here for all the latest news The Johns Hopkins University Division of Infectious Diseases acknowledges and thanks Bristol-Myers Squibb Immunology and Ortho Biotech Pharmaceuticals for their support of this website through provision of generous, unrestricted educational grants. Physicians and other health care professionals are encouraged to consult other sources and confirm the information contained in this site because no single reference or service can take the place of medical training, education, and experience. Consumers are cautioned that this site is not intended to provide medical advice about any specific medical condition they may have or treatment they may need and they are encouraged to call or see their physician or other health care provider promptly with any health related questions they may have.

32. American Thoracic Society/Centers For Disease Control And Treatment of tuberculosis This Official Joint Statement of the American Thoracic Society, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

33. Safety And Health Topics: Tuberculosis tuberculosis Public Safety and Health Topic Page. OSHA Withdraws Proposal on Occupational Exposure to tuberculosis. OSHA News Release (2003, http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/tuberculosis/

U.S. Department of Labor www.osha.gov MyOSHA [skip navigational links] Search Advanced Search A-Z Index Safety and Health Topics Tuberculosis In Focus What's New OSHA eTools Nearly one-third of the world's population is infected with Tuberculosis (TB) , which kills almost 3 million people per year. TB causes more deaths than any other infectious agent in the world. In the mid-1980s, a resurgence of outbreaks in the United States brought renewed attention to TB. An increase in high risk, immuno-suppressed individuals, particularly those infected with HIV, lead to an increase in TB cases. Drug-resistant strains of this deadly disease also contributed to the problem. However, through a broad range of Federal and community initiatives including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 1994 publication, Guidelines for Preventing the Transmission of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis in Health Care Facilities , TB rates have declined steadily over the past decade. In 2003, the CDC reported 14,874 TB cases (5.1 per 100,000 population). These numbers represent a reduction of more than 50% in the rate of TB since the 1992 peak, and more than 43.5% in the number of cases. The number of reported TB cases and the national TB case rate are now at their lowest levels since TB reporting began in 1953. OSHA recognizes, however, that continued vigilance is necessary to maintain the gains achieved so far. OSHA intends to provide guidance to workplaces with less medical expertise and fewer resources than hospitals, and to use cooperative relationships with employers, public health experts and other government agencies to promote TB control.

34. Incidencia De La Tuberculosis Estudio de la mortalidad ocasionada por esta enfermedad en el a±o 2.000. http://sameens.dia.uned.es/Trabajos3/T3A/LahullaPastorF/index.htm

35. ScienceDirect - Tuberculosis - List Of Issues tuberculosis Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaTB (short for tuberculosis and also for Tubercle Bacillus) tuberculosis is the most common major infectious disease today, infecting two billion people http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/14729792

Register or Login: Password: Athens/Institution Login Quick Search: within This Journal All Journals All Full-text Sources Tuberculosis Bookmark this page as: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/14729792 Formerly known as Tubercle and Lung Disease Articles in Press Volume 85 Volume 85, Issue 4 , Pages 205-267 (July 2005) Volume 85, Issue 3 , Pages 127-204 (May 2005) Volume 85, Issues 1-2 , Pages 1-126 (January-March 2005) TB vaccines for the world Volume 84 Volume 83 Volume 82 Volume 81 Alert me when new Journal Issues are available Add this journal to My Favorite Journals Sample Issue Online More Publication Info Information for Authors Contact Us ... Elsevier B.V.

36. Avian Tuberculosis Article by a veterinarian on this serious problem that could affect both people and flocks of birds. Discusses diagnosis and treatment. http://www.internationalparrotletsociety.org/aviantb.html

IPS Annual Raffle Avian Tuberculosis: The Disease and Its Management By Darrel K. Styles, MS, DVM If your birds are suspected of having avian TB, you and you alone, are responsible for the health of your flock. Your failure to take all necessary precautions in managing avian TB in your birds and facilities may expose you and your flock to significant risk. The sale or transfer of your birds to any other person or facility -without a full disclosure and acknowledgement of the TB risk may expose you to personal liability in the event one of your birds infects other "clean" birds or infects individuals susceptible to the avian TB bacterium. Avian Tuberculosis or avian TB is caused by a bacterium, usually Mycobacterium avium or Mycobacterium genavense. This disease causes a wide range of clinical signs such as "going lite" yet having a voracious appetite; depression, fluffing, occasionally masses under the skin, and typical "sick bird syndrome". In advanced disease, neurological signs may be observed such as Imbalance, weakness, and inability to walk, perch, or fly. This organism is found everywhere in the environment including soil and water. It is shed from wildlife including our native avifauna. However, some species of

37. Mycobacterium Tuberculosis - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Mycobacterium tuberculosis Zopf, 1883. Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the bacterium that causes most cases of tuberculosis. It was first described on March http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycobacterium_tuberculosis

You did it! Over US$240,000 was donated in the 21-day fund drive. Thank you for your generosity! You are still welcome to make a donation or purchase Wikimedia merchandise Mycobacterium tuberculosis From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Mycobacterium tuberculosis Scientific classification Kingdom: Bacteria Phylum: Actinobacteria Order: Actinomycetales Suborder: Corynebacterineae Family: Mycobacteriaceae Genus: Mycobacterium Species: M. tuberculosis Binomial name Mycobacterium tuberculosis Zopf, 1883 Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the bacterium that causes most cases of tuberculosis . It was first described on March 24 by Robert Koch , who subsequently received the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for this discovery in . Its genome has been sequenced. It is a Gram-positive obligate aerobe mycobacterium that divides every 16-20 hours. This is extremely slow compared to other bacteria which tend to have division times measured in minutes (for example, E. coli can divide roughly every 20 minutes). It is a small rod-like bacillus which can withstand weak disinfectants and can survive in a dry state for weeks but can only grow within a host organism.

38. American Lung Association Of Metropolitan Chicago; The Mission Of The American L The mission of the American Lung Association of Metropolitan Chicago is to reduce the pain and suffering caused by lung disease, the third leading cause of death and disability in the United States. http://www.lungchicago.org

American Lung Association of Metropolitan Chicago Home About Research Policy ... Contact HURRICANE KATRINA Hurricane Katrina left more than a toxic brew of chemicals and human waste in its wake. Experts expect staggering amounts of mold to blossom possibly triggering an unprecedented number of asthma attacks and hospitalizations. “As soon as the water subsides, mold will start growing between walls and underneath floor boards,” said Maureen Damitz, Director of Community Education at the American Lung Association of Metropolitan Chicago. “Workers need to get rid of all damp materials before they rebuild or residents could be plagued for years with breathing problems.” Researchers at Saint Louis University School of Public Health who studied mold contamination after the 1993 Mississippi River flood, found nearly one-third of those with allergies or asthma experienced increased breathing difficulties. But mold contamination isn’t limited to flooded areas. It can appear in any damp, humid corner of your home. Humid and moist areas such as basements, kitchens, bathrooms are often sources of mold as well as ceilings and walls where water collects from leaks. Most molds aren’t particularly dangerous to you, but the best defense against mold-related hazards is to avoid them completely.

39. Tuberculosis One of the most dreaded diseases of the 19th century, tuberculosis (TB) was the eighth leading cause of death in children ages 1 to 4 years in the 1920s. http://kidshealth.org/parent/infections/bacterial_viral/tuberculosis.html

KidsHealth Parents Infections Tuberculosis (popularly known as "TB") is a disease caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis . It mainly infects the lungs, although it can affect other organs as well. When someone with untreated TB coughs or sneezes, the air is filled with droplets containing the bacteria. Inhaling these infected droplets is the usual way a person gets TB. One of the most dreaded diseases of the 19th century, TB was the eighth leading cause of death in children ages 1 to 4 years in the 1920s. As the general standard of living and medical care improved in the United States, the incidence of TB decreased. By the 1960s, it wasn't even in the top 10 causes of death among children of any age group. But TB is making a comeback in the United States today - particularly among the homeless, those in prison, and those rendered susceptible because of HIV infection What Are the Signs and Symptoms? In older infants and children, primary pulmonary tuberculosis (the first infection with the tuberculosis bacteria) usually produces no signs or symptoms, and a chest X-ray shows no signs of infection. Rarely, there may be enlargement of the lymph nodes and possibly some coughing.

40. NJMS National Tuberculosis Center http://www.umdnj.edu/ntbcweb/

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