Flashcards: Tuberculosis

Bedaquiline (trade name Sirturo) is a medication used to treat tuberculosis.

Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccine is a vaccine primarily used against tuberculosis.

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB).

A sanatorium (also spelled sanitorium and sanitarium) is a medical facility for long-term illness, most typically associated with treatment of tuberculosis (TB) before antibiotics.

Mycobacterial cervical lymphadenitis, also known as scrofula or King's evil, refers to a lymphadenitis of the cervical lymph nodes associated with tuberculosis as well as non-tuberculous (atypical) mycobacteria.

Pretomanid (PA-824) is an experimental anti-tuberculosis drug.

A tuberculoma is a clinical manifestation of tuberculosis which conglomerates tubercles into a firm lump, and so can mimic cancer tumors of many types in medical imaging studies.

Miliary tuberculosis is a form of tuberculosis that is characterized by a wide dissemination into the human body and by the tiny size of the lesions (1–5 mm).

Streptomycin is an antibiotic (antimycobacterial) drug, the first of a class of drugs called aminoglycosides to be discovered, and it was the first effective treatment for tuberculosis.

4-Aminosalicylic acid (para-aminosalicylic acid or PAS) is an antibiotic used to treat tuberculosis.

Ethambutol (commonly abbreviated EMB or simply E) is a medication primarily used to treat tuberculosis.

Capreomycin is a antibiotic which is given in combination with other antibiotics for MDR-tuberculosis.

Pyrazinamide is a drug used to treat tuberculosis.

Cycloserine (4-amino-3-isoxazolidinone) is an amino acid derivative with an unusual structure.

A paronychia (/ˌpærəˈnɪkiə/; Greek: παρωνυχία from para, "around" and onukh-, "nail") is a nail disease that is an often-tender bacterial or fungal infection of the hand or foot where the nail and skin meet at the side or the base of a finger or toenail.

Rifampicin, also known as rifampin, is an antibiotic used to treat a several types of bacterial infections.

Isoniazid, also known as isonicotinylhydrazide (INH), is an antibiotic used as a first-line agent for the prevention and treatment of both latent and active tuberculosis.

A diagnosis of latent tuberculosis (LTB), also called latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) means a patient is infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, but the patient does not have active tuberculosis.

SQ109 is a drug undergoing development for treatment of tuberculosis.

World Tuberculosis Day, falling on March 24 each year, is designed to build public awareness about the global epidemic of tuberculosis (TB) and efforts to eliminate the disease.

Tuberculous lymphadenitis (or tuberculous adenitis) is a chronic specific granulomatous inflammation of the lymph node with caseation necrosis, caused by infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis or Mycobacterium bovis.

Tuberculous meningitis is also known as TB meningitis or tubercular meningitis.

Mycobacterium caprae is a species of bacteria in the genus Mycobacterium and a member of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex.

Carl Rüedi (April 21 (or 23?), 1848 – June 17, 1901) was a Swiss pulmonologist and at his lifetime one of the best-known physicians in Graubünden.

The Women's National Health Association (WNHA) was a body set up in Ireland in 1907 with the objective of eliminating, as far as possible, the scourge of tuberculosis, and to bring about a reduction in the high infant mortality rates in Ireland.

Jean-Antoine Villemin (January 28, 1827 – October 6, 1892) was a French physician born in Prey, Vosges.

Illness as Metaphor is a 1978 work of critical theory by Susan Sontag, in which she challenges the victim-blaming in the language often used to describe diseases and those who suffer from them.

Professor Frederick Roland George Heaf CMG FRCP (21 June 1894 - 4 February 1973), until 1916 Fritz Rudolf Georg Hief, was a British physician.

Glen Lake Children's Camp is a former children's camp for victims of tuberculosis.

Center for Infectious Disease Research, formerly known as Seattle BioMed, Seattle Biomedical Research Institute or SBRI, is the largest independent, non-profit organization in the United States focused solely on infectious disease discovery research.

Karel Styblo, MD, (1921 – 13 March 1998) was born in Czechoslovakia.

Tuberculous dactylitis is a skeletal manifestation of tuberculosis.

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (or the Global Fund) is an international financing organization that aims to "[a]ttract and disburse additional resources to prevent and treat HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

Between 1873 and 1945, Saranac Lake, New York became a world-renowned center for the treatment of tuberculosis, using a treatment that involved exposing patients to as much fresh air as possible under conditions of complete bed-rest.

Tuberculosis verrucosa cutis (also known as "lupus verrucosus", "prosector's wart", and "warty tuberculosis") is a rash of small, red papular nodules in the skin that may appear 2–4 weeks after inoculation by Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a previously infected and immunocompetent individual.

Robert George Ferguson, O.

Delamanid (USAN, INN) is a drug for the treatment of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis.

Rifampicin/isoniazid/pyrazinamide (trade name Rifater) is a fixed dose combination tablet manufactured by Aventis used in the treatment of tuberculosis.

Philip Montagu D’Arcy Hart, CBE, (25 June 1900 – 30 July 2006) was a seminal British medical researcher and pioneer in tuberculosis treatment.

Madonna Mary Swan-Abdalla (September 12, 1928 – 1993) was an American Indian woman Lakota.

Rifalazil (also known as KRM-1648 and AMI-1648) is an antibiotic.

Thioacetazone (INN and BAN) is also called thiocetazone, thiacetazone, thiosemicarbazone, benzothiozane or amithiozone (USAN); abbreviated T.

Multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB, also known as Vank's disease) is defined as a form of TB infection caused by bacteria that are resistant to treatment with at least two of the most powerful first-line anti-TB drugs, isoniazid (INH) and rifampicin (RMP).

Friedrich Franz Friedmann (October 26, 1876 – February 19, 1953) was a tuberculosis researcher in Berlin who came to New York City to give what he called the "turtle vaccine" to people who came to his clinic in 1913.

Mycobacterium africanum is a species of Mycobacterium that is most commonly found in West African countries.

Tuberculin is an extract of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, M.

The Millennium Foundation for Innovative Finance for Health is an independent, non-profit Swiss organization, established in November 2008 in order to create new ways to finance health systems in low- and middle-income countries.

Lupus vulgaris (also known as Tuberculosis luposa) are painful cutaneous tuberculosis skin lesions with nodular appearance, most often on the face around the nose, eyelids, lips, cheeks, ears and neck.

Charles Badger Clark (January 1, 1883 – September 26, 1957) was an American poet.

Christopher Dye FRS, FMedSci is Director of Strategy in the Office of the Director General at the World Health Organization.

ESAT-6, the 6 kDa early secretory antigenic target produced by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is a secretory protein and potent T cell antigen.

UNITAID is a global health initiative in great part financed by a solidarity levy on airline tickets.

Mario C. Raviglione has been Director of the Global Tuberculosis Programme at the World Health Organization (WHO) since 2003.

Edward Livingston Trudeau (5 October 1848 – 15 November 1915) was an American physician who established the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium at Saranac Lake for treatment of tuberculosis.