TB is a disease that can cause a serious illness and can damage a person's organs. Every year more than 25,000 people in the U.S. are diagnosed with TB disease. That's only a fraction of the amount of people who carry the Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a rod-shaped bacterium. TB is spread through the air by carriers of the germ. People who breathe the same air can become infected with the TB germ. People …showed first 75 words of 742 total…

…showed last 75 words of 742 total…for example rifampin. There is also an unproven vaccination called the BCG Vaccination. People that have had a BCG that have not had a skin test usually have to take the skin test when applying for work or school related environments. Bibliography Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia 96 Topic Search-Tuberculosis Internet Stanford University - Tuberculosis http://molepi.stanford.edu/ Tuberculosis Resources http://www.cpmc.comlumbia.edu/ World book 1997, Volume 19, Pages 389-391 The Merck Manual 1987, Fifteenth Edition, Pages 113-126