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What is History of Tuberculosis about?

History of tuberculosis (TB) most probably begins around 70,000 years ago when Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) and humans co-evolved during their partnership. During the Neolithic Revolution, the size of the population and its farming and animal domestication activities contributed to the maintenance and transmission of Mtb. TB continued its increase beginning around 1750 owing to the deplorable conditions prevailing during the Industrial Revolution: overcrowding, malnutrition, absent sanitation. Even after Robert Koch's seminal discovery of Mtb in 1882, methods of diagnosis, treatment, and prevention advanced only slowly. After a continuous decline in the nineteenth century, TB mortality increased sharply in many countries during World Wars I and II. In 1944, first effective anti-TB antibiotics were developed and better ones followed in the next years. Major impediments to TB eradication or elimination today are drug resistances and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. The World Health Organization (WHO) created the End TB Strategy in 2014, but achieving its goals appears unlikely by 2030. Possible solutions include widespread treatment for latent TB infection and an eff

Author

Robert Loddenkemper; John F. Murray

Publisher

Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9783030667023

Subjects

Medical, Science, Biology