In 1720, for the first time, the infectious origin of TB was conjectured by the English physician Benjamin Marten, while the first successful remedy against TB ...

In 2008, evidence for tuberculosis infection was discovered in human remains from the Neolithic era dating from 9,000 years ago, in · Evidence of the infection ...

18 окт. 2023 г. · Antibiotics were a major breakthrough in TB treatment. In 1943, Selman Waksman, Elizabeth Bugie, and Albert Schatz developed streptomycin.

The first step in finding a cure was the discovery of the cause of tuberculosis by Robert Koch in 1882. The sanatorium movement that began shortly afterward in ...

9 окт. 2023 г. · In 1834, Dr. Johann Schonlein named the disease tuberculosis. However, it was not until March 24, 1882, that Dr. Robert Koch discovered ...

In 2018, one quarter of the world's population was thought to have a latent infection of TB. New infections occur in about 1% of the population each year.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries sanatoria developed for the treatment of patients with tuberculosis. The rest provided there was supplemented with ...

The advent of rifampicin in the late 1970's marked the beginning of the era of short course therapy. The treatment duration for TB can be shortened from more ...

Doctors did not know what caused it, and there was no cure. However, on March 24, 1882, microbiologist Robert Koch, MD, announced he had discovered the culprit: ...