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Tuberculosis

Background

Tuberculosis (or 'TB') is an infection caught from other people, as with a cold or 'flu. It most often occurs in the lungs and lymph glands but can affect any part of the body.

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Medical text written November 1995 by Dr Robert Winter, Consultant Respiratory Physician, Barnet Hospital, London, UK. Last updated July 2005 by Dr Adam Jaffe, Consultant and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Respiratory Research, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and Institute of Child Health, London, UK.

 

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