Sentences with phrase «into active tuberculosis»
More than 10.6 million people worldwide fell ill and 1.7 million died from tuberculosis last year while a quarter of the world has latent TB, which will develop into active tuberculosis for one in ten victims years or even decades later.
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Colorado State University researchers have developed a device for use in the field that can identify both active tuberculosis infection and dormant microbes, which could flare up into full - blown illness *
Ethionamide is a prodrug, which means that it has no effect until M. tuberculosis takes it up and converts the compound into an active form.
One - third of the world population has latent TB — meaning they are infected with the bacteria (M. tuberculosis) that causes the disease but not actively suffering from the disease — providing a potential reservoir of infection if the disease moved into an active state.