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Tuberculosis, Infection Control, and the Microbiology Laboratory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Charles W. Stratton
Charles W. Stratton*
Affiliation:
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
*
Associate Professor of Pathology and Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, C-3213 Medical Center North, Nashville, TN 37232-5310
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Consumption, more commonly known today as tuberculosis, richly deserved its reputation as a leading cause of death in seventeenth-century England. As recently as the turn of the twentieth century, it was responsible for one third of all deaths among U.S. adults between the ages of 20 and 45. On a global scale, this so-called white plague has continued to be the cause of death for approximately 3 million individuals each year-more than any other single infectious disease. In the developing world, tuberculosis continues to account for 26% of avoidable mortality among adults.

Type
Topics in Clinical Microbiology
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 14 , Issue 8 , August 1993 , pp. 481 - 487
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1993

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