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| | Mycobacterium: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic |
 | | Tuberculosis is an infection with the bacterium mycobacterium tuberculosis, which most commonly affects the lungs (pulmonary tb) but can also affect... |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/m/my/mycobacterium.htm
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| | ipedia.com: Tuberculosis Article |
| | Mycobacterium bovis (the bacterium responsible for bovine TB) in particular has been estimated to be responsible, for the period of the first half of the 20th century, for more losses among farm animals than all other infectious diseases combined. | | | Some forms of the disease were probably known to the ancient Greeks, if not before, as the origins of the disease are in the first domestication of cattle (which also gave humanity viral poxes). | | | It is caused by a bacterium, usually the Mycobacterium tuberculosis but any member of the so called Tuberculosis complex will do. |
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http://www.ipedia.com/tuberculosis.html
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| | 1882 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | March 24 - Robert Koch announces the discovery of the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis (Mycobacterium tuberculosis). | | | March 28 Republican Jules Ferry makes primary education in France free, non-clerical (laique) and obligatory, liberating the proletariat from the hegemony of the Church |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1882
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| | Home : Nature Reviews Microbiology |
| | More articles on microbiology from the Nature Publishing Group | | | Nature Reviews Microbiology invites you to explore the microscopic world of microbial invaders and take an animated tour featuring the lifestyles of three disease-causing bacteria: Listeria monocytogenes, Legionella pneumophila and Mycobacterium tuberculosis. |
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http://www.nature.com/reviews/micro
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