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Until the middle of this century, tuberculosis was, in Dickens's words, "a disease which medicine never cured, wealth warded off, or poverty could boast exemption from — which sometimes moves in giant strides, and sometimes at a tardy sluggish pace, but, slow or quick, is ever sure and certain."¹ Mycobacterium tuberculosis is an extremely successful pathogen that continues to thrive in developing countries and is reemerging in the industrialized world. Globally, it remains a more frequent cause of death than any other infectious agent.² Approximately a third of the world's population is infected with M. tuberculosis, and the World Health . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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