Mycobacterium tuberculosis(Latin)

• a human pathogen that had a staggering global impact. Spinal deformities typical of this disease have been found in human remains as far apart as Peru and Egypt and dating from at least 5000 BCE. It is suggested that the domestication of cattle facilitated close contact to humans, resulting in transmission with eventual evolution of M. bovis, the bovine tuberculosis strain. TB did not become epidemic among humans until the early seventeenth century, when increasing urbanization in Western Europe allowed these airborne bacteria to efficiently spread from person to person. This epidemic, often called the ‘Great White Plague’, spread from England to engulf most of Western Europe. Within 200 years, most of the European population had been infected, and perhaps a quarter of the population died
• TB, TBC, BEGIN, CMV, DENV, DGA, EDC, HAART, HMO, HTLV-1, LMIC, NASEM, NICHD, POM, sIgA, SSRI, TDLU, THC, XOR, ZIKV
• Microbiology, Zoonosis, Spine (or spinal cord), Nutrition, Neonatology, Safety and health
• https://doi.org…97169-2.00092-5
• https://doi.org…nut.2022.12.020