tuberculosis
结核病,肺结核,肺结核病,结核
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Pathology.
- : an infectious disease that may affect almost any tissue of the body, especially the lungs, caused by the organism Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and characterized by tubercles.
- : this disease when affecting the lungs; pulmonary phthisis; consumption.
- : any disease caused by a mycobacterium.
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In “Illness as Metaphor,” Sontag wrote about diseases — cancer and tuberculosis — that took their toll over relatively long periods, so the experience of being ill lasted months or years.
The vaccine has additional benefits beyond protecting people from tuberculosis.
Murdoch Children’s Research InstituteThe BCG vaccine was created in the early 20th Century to prevent tuberculosis and is given to more than 100 million children around the world every year.
He had been charged with figuring out why some children, who were otherwise perfectly healthy, fell severely ill after receiving the tuberculosis vaccine.
Another hypothesis involves the BCG vaccine, a century-old inoculation against tuberculosis that has been touted as a “flak-jacket” and a “game-changer” against the novel coronavirus.
Schmidt had arrived in California after his family had been wiped out by tuberculosis in his home state of Rhode Island.
But when Tarkhan got sick with tuberculosis and was ushered out, the government gave him no pension or medical assistance.
But he did endure tuberculosis and the Nazis, so he knew a thing or two about suffering.
But drugs have potentially devastating side effects, and Mengnan developed tuberculosis (TB), an infection that can be deadly.
Her sister, Magda, is quarantined after catching tuberculosis aboard their cramped vessel, and her aunt is nowhere to be found.