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'''Tuberculosis''', also known as "TB" or "consumption", is a multi-system disease caused by the organism ''Mycobacterium tuberculosis''.

==Epidemiology==

Approximately one-third of the world population is infected with TB at any given time, with approximately 2 million TB-related deaths per year worldwide.

==Treatment==

'''Latent TB''' is usually treated fairly easily with one to two medications, depending on local resistance patterns. The treatment often lasts up to a year.

==Etymology==

The word ''tuberculosis'' derives from the [[Latin]]ate ''tuberculum'', meaning root vegetable ([[French]] ''tubercule'', [[Spanish]] and [[Portuguese]] ''tubérculo'', [[Italian]] ''tubero''). The disease primarily afflicted poor people, who had a diet reliant on cheap root vegetables such as [[potato]]es and [[turnip]]s, so it was mistakenly thought the disease was harbored in such vegetables. It is now known that the squalor of [[poverty]] simply created unsanitary conditions that fostered the spread of the disease.

*[[John Calvin]], religious figure

*[[American Medical Association]]

*[[Doctor]]

==References==

#http://www.cdc.gov

#Mandell, Douglas and Bennett's Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases, Chirchill Livingstone.