Tuberculosis is a communicable disease caused by infection with the tubercle bacillus (also known as Mycobacterium tuberculosis or M. tuberculosis), most frequently affecting the lungs.

And further, the same bacillus had been met with by Dr. Koch, a year previously, in the case of four patients who had died of cholera in India, and portions of whose intestines had been forwarded ...

MANY workers have claimed that the common sulphanilamides in high concentrations may modify the course of experimental tuberculosis in animals. Much better results have been obtained, however ...

IT IS increasingly apparent that the usefulness of streptomycin therapy in pulmonary tuberculosis is seriously limited by the frequent and often early appearance of tubercle bacilli that are ...