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Name
Tuberculosis
Transmission
Geography
Worldwide
Incubation Period
No specified incubation period as some people live with latent TB infection without developing the full active TB disease
Signs and Symptoms
Diagnosis
Treatment
Usually involves a 6-12 month course of 4 standard (called first-line) antimicrobial drugs which must be taken exactly as they are prescribed
Resistance
Prognosis
Prevention: What Can You Do?
Sources:
http://www.cdc.gov/tb/topic/basics/default.htm
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs104/en/
http://www.who.int/tb/areas-of-work/drug-resistant-tb/xdr-tb-faq/en/