tuberculosis tb

基本解释

As we approach the target year of 2015 for reaching the Millennium Development Goals, there is good news to report in the fight against tuberculosis (TB).
到2015年實現千年發展目標，這一目標日期正曏我們靠近。此時此刻，結核病防治領域的形勢良好。
The bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB) is so genetically distinct in different parts of the world that tackling the disease could require separate vaccines for each region, say researchers.
科學家說，導致結核病的細菌在世界不同地方的遺傳結搆是如此不同，因此防控結核病可能需要爲不同地區研制不同的疫苗。
Q: Why is tuberculosis (TB) still a major cause of death and disability in the world?
問：爲什麽結核病迄今爲止仍是世界上引起死亡和殘疾的一大主要原因？

Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, or XDR-TB, will not respond to any of those drugs but might still be treatable.
Multidrug resistant tuberculosis,or MDR-TB, will not get better with antibiotics normally used for tuberculosis.
The clinic has seen an increase in the number of people with multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis or MDR TB.

At the time Jorge Bergoglio was a teenager, most lung surgery was done for infections, especially tuberculosis (TB) and empyema, a condition related to pneumonia where pus accumulates between the lung and the chest wall.
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