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Tuberculosis
tuberculle bacillus
caused by?
*Microbacterium tuberculosis
*Lungs get affected
What is it called when no symptoms are shown?
Latent Tuberculosis
Symptoms
*blood containing mucus
*sweats night
*weight loss
Vaccine for it
BCG(Bacillus camerin guellete)
other name
Acid fast bacillus
Acid fast staining techniques
Ziehl-Neelsen stain
(PAUL EHRILCH)
KINYOUN STAIN
Who was the person who first published the name tuberculosis?
jN Scholein
1832 —german (tuberkulose)
Who was person awarded NOBEL PRIZE FOR MEDICINE AND PSYCHOLOGY for finding [BACILLUS CAUSING DISEASE]
ROBERT KOCH
24th march,1882
WORLD TUBERCULOSIS DAY
24th march
Whe was BCG invented?
1906
used on humans 1st-FRANCE(1921)
TB 2023 THEME
YES! WE CAN DO IT
Target of ending tb by?
2025
How many TB deaths are caused by tobacco?
7.9%
LANCET MEDICAL JOURNAL FOUND IN?
1823
England(THOMAS WAKELEY)
LANCET currently run by?
Elsievier (1991)
ICMR
INDIAN COUNCIL FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH
ICMR funded by?
govt. of india through
MINIS OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE
India’s nationla registry for clinical trials?
2007
CLINICAL TRIALS REGISTRY
minis of family and welfare
MANSUKH MANDAIVYA
when was it named ICMR
1949
ICMR earlier name
Indian research fund association(1911)
how many research institutes?
30
Governing counil headed by?
UNION HEALTH MINISTER