The history of tuberculosis: from mummies to multidrug resistance across the Royal Touch

Submitted: 28 January 2016
Accepted: 15 February 2016
Published: 30 June 2016
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Writing about a complete history of tuberculosis would obviously require more than the space we have available; therefore, this brief manuscript is just aimed to summarize some of the most curious and potentially less known aspects of this long lasting disease that likely started to accompany the mankind from the very beginning and still is among the most worrying illness affecting the poorest classes worldwide.

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Morazzoni, C., & DePaschale, M. (2016). The history of tuberculosis: from mummies to multidrug resistance across the Royal Touch. Microbiologia Medica, 31(2). https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2016.5782