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Tuberculous fibrosis of lung
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Modern surgical methods have a good outcome in most cases in which they are needed. Miliary tuberculosis is still fatal in many cases but is rarely seen today in developed countries.
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Modern surgical methods have good outcomes in most cases in which they are needed. Miliary tuberculosis is still fatal in many cases but is rarely seen today in developed countries.
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With treatment, TB infection that is not drug resistant can nearly always be cured as long as patients are consistent with their medications and considerable lung damage as not already occurred. Drug-resistant TB has a lower cure rate.
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Disseminated tuberculosis(TB) is a contagious bacterial infection that has spread from the lungs to other parts of the body through the blood or lymph system.Miliary tuberculosis; Tuberculosis- disseminated; Extrapulmonary tuberculosis.Tuberculosi...
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Tuberculous meningitis is an infection of the the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord(meninges).
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Meningitis is the most common serious manifestation of infection of the central nervous system (CNS). Inflammatory involvement of the subarachnoid space with meningeal irritation leads to the classic triad of headache, fever and meningism, and to a pleocytosis in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF).
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Pulmonary tuberculosis(TB) is a contagious bacterial infection that mainly involves the lungs, but may spread to other organs.Pulmonary tuberculosis is caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis(M. tuberculosis). You can get tuberculosis by...
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