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... > Infections > Bacterial Infections and Mycoses > Bacterial Infections > Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections > Actinomycetales Infections > Mycobacterium Infections > Tuberculosis

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Tuberculosis  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Infection, Mycobacterium tuberculosis
  • Infections, Mycobacterium tuberculosis
  • Koch Disease
  • Koch's Disease
  • Kochs Disease
  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection
  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infections

Note

  • general or unspecified; prefer specifics; if unspecified as just "tuberculosis", TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY is probably the correct heading but check text carefully; tuberculid: index under TUBERCULOSIS, CUTANEOUS;

Scope note

  • Any of the infectious diseases of man and other animals caused by species of MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS.

History note

  • TUBERCULOSIS IMMUNITY was heading 1963-66

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D014376

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