Abstract
Tuberculosis is a chronic necrotizing bacterial infection with a wide variety of manifestations caused by a characteristic bacillus, which was discovered by Robert Koch in 1882. Recently, a modified form of tuberculosis has appeared in patients infected with the HIV virus of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). In this setting, it is more of an acute infection with less of a tendency for necrosis. The major portion of this chapter is concerned with the classic form of tuberculosis in persons not infected with the HIV virus. In a separate section at the end of this chapter, the differences between classic tuberculosis and tuberculosis in AIDS patients are presented.
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Moulding, T. (1988). Pathogenesis, Pathophysiology, and Immunology. In: Schlossberg, D. (eds) Tuberculosis. Clinical Topics in Infectious Disease. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0305-3_2
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