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Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis (/tjuːˌbɜːrkjuːˈloʊsɪs/ tew-BUR-kew-LOH-siss, .mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}also /ˌtjuːbər-/ TEW-bər-; TB), also known colloquially as the "white death", or historically as…

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Causes
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Deaths
1.23 million per year
Diagnostic method
CXR, microbial culture, TB skin test, interferon gamma release assay
Differential diagnosis
Pneumonia, histoplasmosis, sarcoidosis, coccidioidomycosis
Frequency
10.7 million new infections per year (2024)
Other names
Phthisis, phthisis pulmonalis, consumption, white death, great white plague

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Tuberculosis

Nodes290
Edges289
Triples392
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.006897
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Tuberculosis

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related to Art and literature · 33
Tuberculosis → Alice Neel, Amedeo Modigliani, Anton Chekhov, Aubrey Beardsley, Charlotte Brontë, Edgar Allan Poe, Edvard Munch, Elizabeth Siddal, Franz Kafka, Frédéric Chopin, Fyodor Dostoevsky, George Orwell, Ingrid Bergman, Jean-Antoine Watteau, John Keats, Katherine Mansfield, Major, Marie Bashkirtseff, Mary's, Mountain
related to External links · 21
Tuberculosis → American Archive, Archived, CDC, Centers, Congress, Disease Control, Health Protection Agency, In Black America, July, KUT Radio, Library, London, New TB, October, Prevention, Public Broadcasting, TB, Tuberculosis Among African Americans, WGBH, WHO
related to Geographical epidemiology · 18
Tuberculosis → African, Approximately, Bangladesh, China, Congo, Democratic Republic, High, HIV-associated, Hopes, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, TB, The, Western Pacific, WHO South-East Asia
has treatment · 16
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related to Law · 15
Tuberculosis → As, Czech Republic, England, Estonia, European Union, Germany, Historically, Israel, Many, Norway, Russia, Switzerland, TB, UK, US
related to Mycobacteria · 15
Tuberculosis → Africa, African, Among, Gram, Gram-positive, Horn, If, In, It, MTB, Mycobacteria, Mycobacterium, TB, TB-causing, The
related to Drug susceptible TB · 14
Tuberculosis → An, Ethambutol, Evidence, For, HMPZ, HRZE, Isoniazid, Moxifloxacin, Pyrazinamide, Rifampicin, Rifapentine, The, These, To
related to Epidemiology · 14
Tuberculosis → Africa, Americas, Asia, BCE, DNA, Earlier, Europe, Hippocrates, In Europe, India, Neolithic, Phylogenetic, Reports, Vedas
related to Names · 14
Tuberculosis → BCE, Consumption, Death, English, Great, Greek, Hippocrates, In, In The Life, John Bunyan, Latin, Mr Badman, Phthisis, Tabes
related to Extrapulmonary · 11
Tuberculosis → Extrapulmonary TB, HIV, In, Miliary TB, Most, Notable, Pott, Symptoms, TB, These, Urogenital

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
TuberculosisCausesMycobacterium tuberculosis1.00infobox
TuberculosisDeaths1.23 million per year1.00infobox
TuberculosisDiagnostic methodCXR, microbial culture, TB skin test, interferon gamma release assay1.00infobox
TuberculosisDifferential diagnosisPneumonia, histoplasmosis, sarcoidosis, coccidioidomycosis1.00infobox
TuberculosisFrequency10.7 million new infections per year (2024)1.00infobox
TuberculosisOther namesPhthisis, phthisis pulmonalis, consumption, white death, great white plague1.00infobox
TuberculosisPreventionScreening those at high risk, treatment of those infected, vaccination with bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG)1.00infobox
TuberculosisRisk factorsImmunodeficiency1.00infobox
TuberculosisSpecialtyInfectious disease, pulmonology1.00infobox
TuberculosisSymptomsChronic cough, fever, cough with bloody mucus, weight loss. Latent TB infection is asymptomatic1.00infobox
TuberculosisTreatmentAntibiotics1.00infobox
Tuberculosisis aset of administrative0.90text

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