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Taming Tuberculosis: A Challenge for Science and Society

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1 Taming Tuberculosis: A Challenge for Science and Society
Carl Nathan  Cell Host & Microbe  Volume 5, Issue 3, Pages (March 2009) DOI: /j.chom Copyright © 2009 Elsevier Inc. Terms and Conditions

2 Figure 1 TB Control: Cycling Back to the 19th Century?
(A) “Det Syke Barn” (The Sick Child) by Edvard Munch, 1885, depicts the artist's sister dying of tuberculosis. (Copyright Tate, London 2009). (B) Robert Koch announced the cause of tuberculosis in 1882, for which he won a Nobel Prize in 1905. (C) Selman A. Waksman discovered streptomycin, the first drug effective against TB, for which he won a Nobel Prize in The quotation in the text is from The Conquest of Tuberculosis (Waksman, S.A. [1964]. Berkeley: University of California Press). (D) Incarcerated patients with MDR TB repeatedly escaped the quarantine facility shown here in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, as reported by C.W. Dugger in the New York Times (March 25, 2008). (Mariella Furrer/The New York Times/Redux). Cell Host & Microbe 2009 5, DOI: ( /j.chom ) Copyright © 2009 Elsevier Inc. Terms and Conditions


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