Abstract

PEREZ CRUZ, Hayvin; GARCIA SILVEIRA, Eberto; PEREZ CRUZ, Nuvia  and  SAMPER NOA, Juan A. HISTORY OF ANTI TUBERCULOSIS FIGHT. Rev haban cienc méd [online]. 2009, vol.8, n.2. ISSN 1729-519X.

Tuberculosis is one of the most terrible diseases that affect man, it is known since 20 000 years. The history of the fight against tuberculosis initiates since the beginning and development of civilization, linked to the knowledge of the disease in every age period of human evolution. An uncountable amount of rites, remedies, and medicines have been employed along the history to eradicate this disease. Currently, numerous resources and investigations are dedicated to the search for new medications and vaccines with therapeutic possibilities, because even now, at the beginning of the 21^st Century, Mycobacterium Tuberculosis is still causing death to millions of people and facing new challenges such as TB/HIV & MDR-TB.

Keywords : Consumption; bacillipherus; bronchopleural; pleuropulmonary.

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