The pair lived together for just four months, when her mother died from tuberculosis.
He suffered from tuberculosis during his imprisonment and has battled respiratory infections over the years.
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Drug-resistant strains of everything from tuberculosis to staphylococcus are killing tens of thousands of patients every year.
The animals, which suffer from tuberculosis, were due to be killed in December, but were granted a reprieve until after Christmas.
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Laxmi Saman Muran's one-year-old son is suffering from tuberculosis of the brain.
The two elephants have been suffering from tuberculosis, and the city authorities have insisted that they should be put to sleep as they pose a threat to other animals in the zoo and its visitors.
Gans eventually sacked his manager, confessed to the fixed fights, won international recognition as a fine champion and was mourned by thousands, white and black, at his funeral in Baltimore, when he died from tuberculosis at the then typically early age of 35.
Experts are anxious about the case of a man from the Atlanta area who brought back a deadly new strain of tuberculosis from his Asian travels.
The young man who emerges from Virgil Tanase's biography in particular is seductive, funny and loving, but constantly on the move: between the raw, sun-drenched Mediterranean and cramped, grey Paris, ever in search of respite from crippling bouts of tuberculosis, as well as comfort from the various women he charmed and loved with a passion.
They die from chronic respiratory ailments like tuberculosis and emphysema, and from cancers affecting the lungs, mouth, liver and stomach.
Yet the near disappearance of tuberculosis from the Western world, where it was once the greatest killer of all, owes little to streptomycin.
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People harken back to some golden age before the industrial revolution, oblivious to the fact that people died from things like tuberculosis (Henry David Thoreau) and tetanus (his brother).
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For 15 years, as a hospital doctor in the rural town of Tugela Ferry, in the heart of South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province, he had watched locals with extinguished immune systems die from infections like tuberculosis, unable to give them medicine that worked.
MBP64, which is derived from a strain of tuberculosis normally used for vaccination.
So, too, says Sengupta, is silicosis, tuberculosis and bronchitis from inhaling dust particles.
So, too, says Sengupta, are silicosis, tuberculosis and bronchitis from inhaling dust particles.
UN, the proportion of children in the Pool vaccinated against tuberculosis has plummeted from 90% in 1990 to 37% in 2000.
Many of them, especially those who worked in trash dumps, suffered from serious health ailments like Tuberculosis, Gangrene, and Hepatitis B.
The Laureate of the 2003 Institut Pasteur-UNESCO Medal is Professor Fadila Boulahbal from Algeria, a specialists in tuberculosis.
Some will be vaccinated with the bacteria, which although from the same family as the tuberculosis bacterium, does not cause any disease.
He had survived malaria and tuberculosis, and no one from his extended family had visited him since the time he arrived.
Some very cool science is on the drawing board: a recombinant vaccine that pairs salmonella with a gene from, say, the organism that causes tuberculosis as an oral delivery system to stimulate the body's natural immunity to both bacteria.
Three years ago, Macchiarini made headlines by implanting an artificial trachea created from donor tissue combined with stem cells from the recipient, Claudia Castillo, whose windpipe had been damaged by tuberculosis.
His great-grandson, Hugh Owen Thomas, earned himself the epithet of The Father of Modern Orthopaedics, after inventing a collar to treat osteo-tuberculosis, a wrench for reducing dislocations, and a splint, which greatly reduced deaths from fractures among late 19th Century Liverpool dockers.
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