What is Tuberculosis Flashcards
1
Q
incident rate
A
8.8 million (2010)
2
Q
mortality rate
A
1.4 million (2010)
3
Q
treatment
A
5.7 million
4
Q
tb affecting lymph nodes of neck
A
scofula, from drinking contaminated milk. treatment by king’s touch
5
Q
hippocrates vs galen
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h: inherited. g: contagious, due to miasma
6
Q
who said tubercles were always present in the disease?
A
richard morton
7
Q
who demonstrated infectious nature of TB
A
jean-antoine villemin (1865)
8
Q
who identified the bacterium that caused tuberculosis
A
robert koch (1882). in 1980, announced a glycerine extract of the tubercle bacilli as a remedy for tuberculosis (tuberculin) 1905: won Nobel Prize for discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
9
Q
three antimicrobial therapy
A
1946: streptomycin
1952: isoniazid
1970: rifampin
