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Tuberculosis
The disease and its historical and modern treatment.
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- How deadly was tuberculosis in Europe at the time Koch identified its cause?
- How effective is the BCG vaccine against pulmonary tuberculosis in adults compared to severe childhood TB?
- How was streptomycin isolated, and why was its effectiveness against tuberculosis so significant?
- What are Koch's postulates and what four steps did his tuberculosis demonstration establish?
- Why was penicillin ineffective against Mycobacterium tuberculosis, leaving tuberculosis largely untreatable into the 1940s?
- Why was tuberculosis resistant to sulfonamides and penicillin when other bacterial infections responded?