Ví dụ về tuberculosis

• The relative contribution of exogenous re-infection to recurrent tuberculosis depends on the incidence of tuberculosis in a community [10, 11].

• The case of tuberculosis similarly demonstrates how expert knowledge which challenged dominant power structures was disregarded.

• The complications also mean that reproduction number estimates for tuberculosis cannot be used to calculate a simple herd-immunity threshold for the disease.

• Moreover, infectious diseases, such as tuberculosis, affect the size of the labour force and the productive capacity of the economy.

• It was only later that the ideas were applied to another important airborne infection, tuberculosis, for which a vaccine is widely available [9, 20].

• But if tuberculosis is so clearly the disease being invoked, why the mystery?

• Diagnostic methods (tuberculosis bacteriology and leprosy biopsies) are described in detail elsewhere [14, 15].

• The hospital where he was treated had no community tuberculosis services.

• We do not know how much of an increase in poverty there was due to the tuberculosis in the families of the index subjects.

• It also makes clear that tuberculosis is still a problem and an important differential diagnosis in the older population.

• Reference to the supposed relationship between schizophrenia and tuberculosis recalls a cautionary tale.

• Interpreting the decline in tuberculosis during the last century - the roles of secular trends in effective contact.

• Risk factors for drug-resistant tuberculosis is a consequence of drug resistance rather than a cause.

• The biopsy material established a specific etiologic diagnosis in 65% and excluded tuberculosis and malignancy in the rest (35%).

• The most common mechanical obstacles include colorectal cancer and faecal impaction, with ischaemic colitis and tuberculosis seen less frequently.