TUBERCULOSIS. ETIOLOGY, SOURCES, ROUTES AND FACTORS OF TRANSMISSION OF INFECTION
Abstract
The causative agent of tuberculosis and its properties. The causative agent of tuberculosis, discovered in 1882 by the German scientist Robert Koch, is usually called in his honor Koch's bacterium (KB) or mycobacterium tuberculosis (MBT) (mykes - fungus). The causative agent of tuberculosis belongs to a large group of fungi, the genus of mycobacteria, the family of actinomycetes (radiant fungi; astis - ray). Among the many mycobacteria known in nature, three groups are distinguished:
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