Waseem Saeed.
Malignant tuberculosis
J Ayub Med Coll Abottabad Jul - Sep 2006;18(3):1-2.
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Tuberculosis, a disease of antiquity, has killed more people than Black Death, Leprosy and AIDS. Tuberculosis has felled an estimated one billion people around the world in the past two centuries and the fatalities continue despite effective chemotherapy. Tuberculosis is one of the oldest diseases known to affect the humanity. Human bones dating back five millennia show the telltale pitting of tuberculosis. Mummies from ancient Egypt show tubercular decay in their spines. The Greek called the disease phthisis (consumption) emphasizing the general wasting associated with chronic untreated cases. This is an Editorial.
Category: Internal Medicine
Keywords: Tuberculosis.
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