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| Requiring oxygen for the maintenance of life. |
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| Drugs used to treat infections caused by Mycobacterium bacterial species. |
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Small nodular aggregations of inflammatory cells
(e.g., macrophages, lymphocytes); usually characterized
by clearly delimited boundaries, as found in tuberculosis. |
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The primary and most commonly prescribed tuberculostatic
drug. |
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| Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) |
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| Tuberculosis that demonstrates resistance to two or more drugs. |
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An individual with a genetic defect that causes
a deficiency in the enzyme needed to metabolize isoniazid,
the most widely used tuberculosis drug. |
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The characteristic lesion of tuberculosis; a small round
gray translucent granulomatous lesion, usually with a caveated (cheesy) consistency in its interior. (See granuloma.) |
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| Another common name for rod-shaped tuberculosis bacteria; essentially synonymous with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. |
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Any infectious disease caused by species of
Mycobacterium, usually Mycobacterium tuberculosis (adjectives: tuberculous, tubercular). |
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