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Tuberculosis

Clinical Perspective
Tuberculosis (TB) is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.TB.) and is the leading cause of death in the world from a single infectious disease. Although very little is known of the mechanisms of it pathogenesis and how to protect a person from the disease. There was a decline in TB in the United States in the last century but the disease is now increasing and there are now multiple drug resistant strains that have emerged. This increase has multiple causes some of which are changes in social structure in cities, HIV epidemic, and a failure by some public entities to improve their public health programs.
In 2002 M. TB. is responsible for more morbidity in humans than any other bacterial disease. M.TB. infects 1.7 billion people per year which is equal to 33% of the entire world population and is responsible for over 3 million deaths/year. (Todar’s 2002)
In the United States since 1985 there has been an increase in cases of M.TB. this is...

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