Willem Johan Kolff was born in Leiden, the Netherlands, on February 14, 1911, the son of Adriana (de Jonge) and Jacob Kolff, a doctor who ran a tuberculosis sanatorium. After graduating from medical school at the University of Leiden in 1938, Kolff...

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease of the lungs caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis. In the mid-nineteenth century, about one-fourth of the mortality rate was attributable to tuberculosis. It was particularly rampant in early...

Tuberculosis (TB) is a potentially fatal contagious disease that can affect almost any part of the body but is mainly an infection of the lungs. It is caused by a bacterial microorganism, the tubercle bacillus or Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Although TB...

Tuberculosis is a serious infectious disease caused by the rod-shaped bacteria, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which lodge in the lungs and destroy lung tissue. Sometimes called consumption, or simply TB, tuberculosis is usually transmitted from...

Tuberculosis A chronic, infectious disease primarily attacking the lungs. Tuberculosis (TB) is an chronic, infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis that primarily attacks the lungs. The tubercle bacillus is transmitted by droplets when...

Tuberculosis (abbreviated as TB for tubercle bacillus or Tuberculosis) is a common and deadly infectious disease caused by mycobacteria, mainly Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis most commonly attacks the lungs (as pulmonary TB) but can also...

The global rate of tuberculosis infections has leveled off, public health officials said Thursday, offering a glimmer of hope for the first time since the disease's spread was declared a global emergency more than a decade ago.But despite that good news, an ominous threat is...

The Netherlands pledged Thursday to invest euro30 million ($38 million) to fight tuberculosis amid concerns about a deadly, drug-resistant new form of the disease, three nonprofit groups said. The investment, to be handed out over four years, was the largest...

The European Union will ask all member states to draft action plans to prevent the spread of tuberculosis, as a new drug-resistant form of the disease is becoming an increasing threat, the EU health commissioner said Tuesday.Markos Kyprianou said the EU must increase its efforts...

More than 130,000 lives could be saved if the world implements a two-year strategy to stop drug-resistant tuberculosis, the World Health Organization and partners said.Officials are concerned that the current epidemic _ where most people catch curable strains of the disease _ might evolve into...

In the following excerpt, Moorman speculates on the possible connection between tuberculosis and literary genius.

In the following essay, Latimer observes that in works by such authors as Thomas Mann and Edgar Allan Poe characters afflicted with tuberculosis are associated with erotic and artistic qualities.