Tuberculosis — Classification and external resources Chest X ray of a person with advanced tuberculosis ICD 10 A … Wikipedia
Vaccines for the New Millennium Act — was a bill introduced by Senator John Kerry (D MA) and Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D CA). The bill would have provided tax credits to private sector companies working on vaccines for some of the world s most deadly infectious agents. The tax credits took… … Wikipedia
Tuberculosis treatment — Various pharmaceutical tuberculosis treatments their actions Tuberculosis treatment refers to the medical treatment of the infectious disease tuberculosis (TB). The standard short course treatment for TB is isoniazid, rifampicin (also known as… … Wikipedia
Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis — (XDR TB) is a form of TB caused by bacteria that is resistant to the most effective anti TB drugs. It has emerged from the mismanagement of multidrug resistant TB (MDR TB) and once created, can spread from one person to another.One in three… … Wikipedia
Mycobacterium tuberculosis — M. tuberculosis bacterial colonies Scientific classification Kingdom: Bacteria … Wikipedia
Multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis — Classification and external resources MeSH D018088 Multi drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB) is defined as TB that is resistant at least to isoniazid (INH) and rifampicin (RMP), the two most powerful … Wikipedia
Global Plan to Stop Tuberculosis — The [http://www.stoptb.org Stop TB Partnership] promotes [http://www.stoptb.org/globalplan The Global Plan to Stop TB] , which calls for a total of $56 billion between 2006 and 2015 to treat 50 million tuberculosis patients and save 14 million… … Wikipedia
Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium — The Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium was located in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Founded in 1915, it was a municipal organization which included a sanatorium, dispensaries, and other auxiliary agencies essential in the control of tuberculosis … Wikipedia
Timeline of vaccines — This is a timeline of the development of prophylactic human vaccines. Early vaccines may be listed by the first year of development or testing, but later entries usually show the year the vaccine finished trials and became available on the market … Wikipedia
Bacillus Calmette-Guérin — (or Bacille Calmette Guérin, BCG) is a vaccine against tuberculosis that is prepared from a strain of the attenuated (weakened) live bovine tuberculosis bacillus, Mycobacterium bovis , that has lost its virulence in humans by being specially… … Wikipedia