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... reported last week at the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City. Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB), first described in 2006, is defined as TB which is resistant to at least the two first-line drugs rifampicin and ...
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... habitats such as water or soil. However, a few are intracellular pathogens of animals and humans. Mycobacterium tuberculosis, along with M. bovis, M. africanum, and M. microti all cause the disease known as tuberculosis (TB) and are members of the ...
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... as a health resort. "Greenville possesses climatic peculiarities which approach the ideal of what a climate for pulmonary invalids should be than any other health resort in this country or Europe," the 1890 resort guide assured readers. ...
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... said Dr. Simon Spivack , who studies lung cancer at the research center, and is the chief of the division of pulmonary medicine at Montefiore. Case in point: Bill Jacobs , a genetics, microbiology and immunology professor, who works in a biosafety ...
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Main Category: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Also Included In: Respiratory / Asthma Article Date: 02 Aug 2008 The standard regimens to treat tuberculosis are inadequate in countries with high rates ...
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