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Requiring oxygen for the maintenance of life.

Drugs used to treat infections caused by mycobacterium bacterial species

A rod-shaped bacterium.

Small nodular aggregations of inflammatory cells (e.g., macrophages, lymphocytes); usually characterized by clearly delimited boundaries, as found in tuberculosis.

The primary and most commonly prescribed tuberculostatic drug

Tuberculosis that demonstrates resistance to two or more drugs

An individual with a genetic defect that causes a deficiency in the enzyme needed to metabolize isoniazid, the most widely used tuberculosis

The characteristic lesion of tuberculosis; a small round gray translucent granulomatous lesion, usually with a caseated
(cheesy) consistency in its interior. (see granuloma)

Another common name for rod-shaped tuberculosis bacteria; essentially synonymous with Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Any infectious disease caused by species of Mycobacterium, usually Mycobacterium tuberculosis (adjectives: tuberculous, tubercular)