Published October 1998 | Version v1
Journal article

Tuberculosis

Description

The tuberculosis is an infection bacterial chronicle of world distribution. Three organisms of the family of the mycobacterium, the m. tuberculosis, the m. bovis and m. africanum, phenotypic and genetically similar, produce it, but only the m. tuberculosis has importance; the others rarely produce illness in the human. By definition, the lung tuberculosis is the localization of the m. tuberculosis in the breathing tract, the most common and main form in the affection and the only able to contaminate to other people. The koch bacillus, transmits the illness directly person to person. The paper Includes topics like pathogenesis, natural history, epidemiology, diagnose, symptomatology and treatment

Additional details

Additional titles

Original title (Spanish)
Tuberculosis

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Revista de la Facultad de Medicina
Journal Volume
46
Journal Issue
4
Journal Page Range
p. 215-221
ISSN
0120-0011

INIS

Country of Publication
Colombia
Country of Input or Organization
Colombia
INIS RN
35028415
Subject category
S62: RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE;
Descriptors DEI
BACTERIAL DISEASES; DISEASES; EPIDEMIOLOGY; IMAGES; INFECTIOUS DISEASES; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS
Descriptors DEC
BACTERIA; BACTERIAL DISEASES; DISEASES; INFECTIOUS DISEASES; MICROORGANISMS; MYCOBACTERIUM