RT Book, Section A1 Hornick, Douglas B. A2 Boulton, Matthew L. A2 Wallace, Robert B. SR Print(0) ID 1182675106 T1 Tuberculosis T2 Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health & Preventive Medicine, 16e YR 2022 FD 2022 PB McGraw Hill PP New York, NY SN 9781259644511 LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1182675106 RD 2024/03/29 AB Tuberculosis (TB) has been an affliction of humankind since before recorded history. TB inspired the writer John Bunyan to aptly describe this deadly and mysterious disease in 1660 as “the captain of all these men of death that came against him to take him away, was the consumption for it was that brought him down to the grave.”1 As with classic works of literature, tuberculosis endures. In spite of the heralded medicinal cures developed in the 1940s and 1950s, tuberculosis still devastates populations throughout the world. Aspects of the pathogenesis of this disease still remain shrouded in mystery. Even more disturbing, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the etiologic agent of TB, has become increasingly resistant to antimycobacterial medications and travels with, and has been especially virulent among those suffering from acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). These trends keep tuberculosis at the forefront among the deadly infections of humankind.