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The book tuberculosis contains all required topics related to the tuberculosis, which is written in a simple and easy understandable language that is useful to students in research and their theory and practical examination. The book consists of total 9 chapters and each chapter of the book gives emphasis on the knowledge of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Laboratory diagnosis, prevention and treatment of tuberculosis are given in details.This book will provide a readily accessible knowledge to the student and researcher who working on tuberculosis and its clear writing, easy to understand and accurate knowledge will make it ideal book for students. Tuberculosis has been major cause of morbidity and mortality since time immemorial. India has oldest reference of this in Vedas and it was called "rajayakshama". Hippocrates (460-377 B.C.) called the disease "Pthisis" a Greek word which means "to consume". In different ancient literatures, disease symptoms resembling tuberculosis have found mention, e.g. Bible. First time J.L. Schonlein, Professor of Medicine at Zurich is credited to have named the disease "tuberculosis".
