tuberculosis tb

基本解释

As we approach the target year of 2015 for reaching the Millennium Development Goals, there is good news to report in the fight against tuberculosis (TB).
到2015年实现千年发展目标，这一目标日期正向我们靠近。此时此刻，结核病防治领域的形势良好。
The bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB) is so genetically distinct in different parts of the world that tackling the disease could require separate vaccines for each region, say researchers.
科学家说，导致结核病的细菌在世界不同地方的遗传结构是如此不同，因此防控结核病可能需要为不同地区研制不同的疫苗。
Q: Why is tuberculosis (TB) still a major cause of death and disability in the world?
问：为什么结核病迄今为止仍是世界上引起死亡和残疾的一大主要原因？

Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, or XDR-TB, will not respond to any of those drugs but might still be treatable.
Multidrug resistant tuberculosis,or MDR-TB, will not get better with antibiotics normally used for tuberculosis.
The clinic has seen an increase in the number of people with multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis or MDR TB.

At the time Jorge Bergoglio was a teenager, most lung surgery was done for infections, especially tuberculosis (TB) and empyema, a condition related to pneumonia where pus accumulates between the lung and the chest wall.
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