tuberculosis
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It contains testing kits for tuberculosis, cooled storage for vaccines, and ultrasound for pregnant women.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
He wasn’t allowed to join the Army after doctors found a spot on his lung that looked like tuberculosis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
"Early reports linked smoking to infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, followed by cardiovascular disease, stroke and lung cancer," A/Prof Sitas says.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 21, 2026
Barbara Stanwyck plays a celebrated concert pianist being treated for tuberculosis in an elite Swiss Alps sanitarium.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026
She still suffers from the effects of several diseases she contracted in the Congo, including schistosomiasis, Guinea worms, and probably tuberculosis.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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We have a pseudo-bacillosis of a strepto bacillar origin, not to mention the "professional" tuberculoses, such as that to which persons are exposed who have to breathe the fumes of charcoal.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz
Now it has at last been understood that there are slight tuberculoses, curable, but tremendously frequent.
From A Psychiatric Milestone Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1921 by New York Hospital. Society
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