Latent Tuberculosis

"Latent Tuberculosis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The dormant form of TUBERCULOSIS where the person shows no obvious symptoms and no sign of the causative agent (Mycobacterium tuberculosis) in the SPUTUM despite being positive for tuberculosis infection skin test.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Latent Tuberculosis" by people in this website by year, and whether "Latent Tuberculosis" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 13 publications over 8 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2016
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