Bibliograph

Tuberculosis, Diane Yancey

Type

Label

Tuberculosis, Diane Yancey

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Tuberculosis

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Diane Yancey

Series statement

Twenty-first century medical library

Summary

One of the deadliest diseases healthcare workers fight today, tuberculosis (often called TB) infects the lungs of one-third of the world's population and kills about 2 million people a year. While scientific breakthroughs brought this bacterial disease under control during the 1960's to the 1980s, it was never completely eliminated. In the early 1990's, TB came back as a serious global threat. Not only has TB now spread to virtually every country on Earth, new strains of TB-which are resistant to the standard antibiotics used to cure it-have appeared. Learn what causes TB, how it spreads, why it is so difficult to treat, and more in this informative volume

Target audience

juvenile

Classification