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Tuberculosis (TB) is an airborne infectious disease caused by organisms of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex, mainly Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a rod-shaped, nonmotile, slow-growing, acid-fast bacterium. TB transmission occurs when a contagious patient coughs, spreading bacilli through the air. Although primarily a pulmonary pathogen, it can affect any organ in the body. If not treated properly, TB disease can be fatal.
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Feng, J., Wu, B., Jiang, E., Li, W., Meng, C. (2020). Tuberculosis. In: Feng, J., Wu, B., Jiang, E., Li, W., Meng, C. (eds) Rapid On-Site Evaluation (ROSE) in Diagnostic Interventional Pulmonology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5246-5_1
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