What is TB? What are its signs/symptoms? What type of laboratory tests are use to diagnose TB? What treatment options are available? These questions are answered in this thorough and informative site.

The Virtual Museum of Canada invites you to visit Getting Better hospital, where you can interact with patients, health care workers, even germs! Or visit a dozen specialized rooms of the hospital and see what goes on there, from surgery...

The effects of tuberculosis has on the lungs and the clinical signs associated with it. Also discussed is pleural tuberculosis.

Students learn about six diseases caused by microorganisms. A video that looks at the impact disease has had on human history and society is provided. Students work in groups to read information about one disease, then share what they...

Get the statistics on lung disease in Canada. In addition to more general facts and figures, you will find links to reports on specific lung-related conditions such as: asthma, emphysema and chronic bronchitis, influenza, and tuberculosis.

Use this site to learn about Robert Koch's contribution to the world of medical science, as the discoverer of the organism that causes tuberculosis.

An explanation of how tuberculosis causes damage to lungs and other organs in the body. Latent and secondary tuberculosis is also examined. Of note is once infected with tuberculosis it's with you forever and may cause subsequent issues.

Learn how to help prevent tuberculosis by using the "4I's" model: Intensive Case Findings, Isoniazid, Isolation, and Immunization.

Preventing tuberculosis transmission includes the following: medication, isolation, surgical mask, distancing/spacing from other, air purifying respirator, and HEPA filter.

An explanation of how tuberculosis spreads, its affects on the lungs, latent TB infection vs active TB infection, and constitutional symptoms of TB.

This site from the Nobel eMuseum of the Nobel Foundation allows you to read Robert Koch's Nobel Lecture, "The current state of the struggle against tuberculosis," which was originally given by Koch on December 12, 1905.

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Introduction to a unit of lessons on the following infectious diseases: Tuberculosis, Pertussis, Influenza, Polio, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, HIV and AIDS, Malaria.

Test your knowledge of tuberculosis and other diseases. Separate fact from fiction, and match historical notes and symptoms to various human illnesses.

This fictionalized journal was created by a high school student in Denver, Colorado. It tells the haunting story, through a combination of text and images, of a young woman who is stricken with tuberculosis (and later HIV). This...

Learn about core health indicators in Lesotho in this World Health Organization country profile, which includes demographic and current health information. The 'News and features' tab includes an article on tuberculosis with excellent...

Two deadly diseases, HIV and TB, can often co-exist in the same patient. Treatment of these diseases is discussed as is the immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (iris) and the paradoxical iris.

Learn the different kinds of drug resistance and ways to treat that resistance. Discussion includes treating patients who have relapsed with the same infection or a new TB infection.

A discussion of how to treat Active TB in order to prevent disability and death from the infection and to reduce the spread of the disease.

Discover how the cut off for a "positive PPD" depends on clinical clues.

Key features of primary TB and how it differs from secondary TB.

How the Mantoux test is administered and how it works when determining if a person has tuberculous.

A description of how many lives TB affects throughout the world.

Technical but fascinating Classics Technology Center site gives evidence from papyri, art, and burial remains about the medical abilities and advancements of ancient Egypt. Includes reports of polio and tuberculosis.