tuberculosis tb

基本解釋

As we approach the target year of 2015 for reaching the Millennium Development Goals, there is good news to report in the fight against tuberculosis (TB).
到2015年實現(xiàn)千年發(fā)展目標，這一目標日期正曏我們靠近。此時此刻，結核病防治領域的形勢良好。
The bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB) is so genetically distinct in different parts of the world that tackling the disease could require separate vaccines for each region, say researchers.
科學家說，導致結核病的細菌在世界不同地方的遺傳結搆是如此不同，因此防控結核病可能需要爲不同地區(qū)研制不同的疫苗。
Q: Why is tuberculosis (TB) still a major cause of death and disability in the world?
問：爲什麼結核病迄今爲止仍是世界上引起死亡和殘疾的一大主要原因？

Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, or XDR-TB, will not respond to any of those drugs but might still be treatable.
Multidrug resistant tuberculosis,or MDR-TB, will not get better with antibiotics normally used for tuberculosis.
The clinic has seen an increase in the number of people with multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis or MDR TB.

At the time Jorge Bergoglio was a teenager, most lung surgery was done for infections, especially tuberculosis (TB) and empyema, a condition related to pneumonia where pus accumulates between the lung and the chest wall.
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