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" Tuberculosis / "
Kim R. Finer ; consulting editor, I. Edward Alcamo ; foreword by David Heymann.
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BL
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1028096
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b782466
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| Main Entry
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Finer, Kim Renee,1956-
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Tuberculosis /\ Kim R. Finer ; consulting editor, I. Edward Alcamo ; foreword by David Heymann.
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Philadelphia :: Chelsea House Publishers,, ©2003.
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Deadly diseases and epidemics
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112 pages :: color illustrations, color maps ;; 23 cm.
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0791073092
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: 9780791073094
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 102-103) and index.
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Tuberculosis throughout time -- Robert Koch, Selman Waksman, and the near defeat of tuberculosis -- The tuberculosis bacterium -- Consumption: what happens once you become infected -- Transmission from organism to organism -- The immune response to tuberculosis infection -- Screening for and diagnosis of tuberculosis -- The BCG vaccine -- Treatment of tuberculosis I: sanatoriums and early drug treatments -- Treatment of tuberculosis II: modern drug therapy -- The human immunodeficiency virus and tuberculosis.
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Presents an overview of tuberculosis, covering its history, causes, diagnosis, treatment, and other related topics.
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Tuberculosis, Juvenile literature.
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Diseases.
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Tuberculosis.
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Tuberculosis.
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616.9/95
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RC311.1.F54 2003
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Alcamo, I. Edward.
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