After the death of his first wife and an attack of tuberculosis, which sent him to Davos, Switz., he abandoned his early Naturalism for Romanticism.
His candidature for the agrégation (a qualification that would have enabled him to take up a university career) was cut short by another attack of tuberculosis.
In October 1932, Sargent suffered a near-fatal attack of tuberculosis.
Once discovered, these proteins could, in theory, be administered to people to prepare their immune systems to resist attacks by the likes of tuberculosis, H.I.V. or malaria.
As the International AIDS Conference kicked off in Durban, South Africa, today, two of the nation's most prominent biomedical research institutions announced that they will marry and combine resources to attack the raging coepidemic of tuberculosis (TB) and HIV in the region. .
Paleontologists examining small lesions etched inside the 500,000-year-old skull said this was the earliest known sign of a form of tuberculosis that attacks the meninges, the membranes surrounding the brain.
Regardless of its identity, lead author John Kappelman of the University of Texas, Austin, says the skull bears scars that are a "dead ringer" for those created by the Leptomeningitis tuberculosa bacterium, which causes a form of tuberculosis (TB) that attacks the brain's membranes.
The Phoenix had survived the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour, but Bill had died of tuberculosis shortly before the end of the war.
In a study of household contacts of infectious tuberculosis cases (n = 1918) and a community survey of tuberculosis infection (N = 1179) in Kampala, Uganda, we estimated the secondary attack rate for tuberculosis disease and tuberculosis infection.
