Living With Tuberculosis
By Dr. Carmen Zhou, MD · · Infectious Disease
Patients often ask us about tuberculosis. Here is what our Infectious Disease clinicians want you to know.
About this topic
Topic: tuberculosis. A primary bacterial infectious disease that is located_in lungs, located_in lymph nodes, located_in pericardium, located_in brain, located_in pleura or located_in gastrointestinal tract, has_material_basis_in Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which is transmitted_by droplets released into the air when an infected person coughs or sneezes.
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