https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2016.5782

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

Vol. 31 No. 2 (2016)
Submitted: 28 January 2016
Accepted: 15 February 2016
Published: 30 June 2016
Tuberculosis, history of mycobacteria infections, Bacillus Calmette and Guerin, Royal Touch
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Cristina Morazzoni
cgmora83@gmail.com
Microbiology Operative Unit, Legnano Civil Hospital, Italy.
Massimo DePaschale
Microbiology Operative Unit, Legnano Civil Hospital, Italy.
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

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