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Treatment remained largely unchanged until about 80 years ago. Dedicated people, agencies, and organizations continue the fight to end TB. The following resources were used in the creation of the TB Chronicles.
The history of tuberculosis. Respiratory Medicine. Tuberculosis ; Frith, John. Subsequently a number of patients appeared cured. Robert Koch was an important person in the history of Tuberculosis. In March Robert Koch proved conclusively that the cause of Tuberculosis was infection by a specific micro-organism, the tubercle bacillus which he had isolated.
His discovery made the headlines of the world's press. Subsequently Paul Ehrlich developed an improved staining method. With further later improvements, the result was the Ziehl-Neelsen stain.
Koch also laid down the conditions, known as Koch's postulates, which must be satisfied before it can be accepted that particular bacteria cause particular diseases. Then in Koch announced that he had discovered a substance that could "in some cases" protect against tuberculosis and even "under certain circumstances" cure the disease. But it soon became clear that Tuberculin killed many more patients than it helped.
The treatment was discredited almost everywhere and Koch was severely criticised. Consumption declined slowly after the mid nineteenth century. Although on the continent and in the United States it peaked several decades after England. It remained until the s the commonest cause of death among those about to enter what should have been the most productive period of their lives.
This was the century when everything was to change for TB. At the start of the century there was still no treatment but by the end of the century a number of drugs were available and TB could effectively be cured. It was though also the century when the problem of drug resistant TB was first identified. In it was estimated that the death rate for TB for white Americans was between and per , Among black Americans the comparable figure was deaths per , Around a new use was found for Tuberculin.
But this was not for the treatment of TB, but instead it was for the diagnosis of TB. Then in the BCG vaccine was used for the first time in humans. There is much more about the BCG vaccine. Drug development is still ongoing in There is much more about the history of TB drugs. However, after the development of the rifamycins in the s, no new drugs were to become available for the next fifty years.
Starting around the Madras Experiment was carried out in India to determine whether treatment in a TB sanatorium provided any benefits as compared with treatment at home. Patients were followed up for five years, and the result showed that there was no significant differences between the two groups. The Madras experiment marked the end of the sanitoriums with most of them closing or radically changing the services they provided.
Yet a completely new era was just upon them: by collapse therapy had given way to resection surgery, and by resection had in its turn been replaced by long term chemotherapy and had vanished, never to return 27 R. Signs of single drug resistance had been seen as early as but then there started to be reports of strains of the disease that were resistant to two or even more drugs. The greatest disaster that can happen to a patient with Tuberculosis is that his organisms become resistant to two or more of the standard drugs.
The development of drug resistance may be a tragedy not only for the patient himself but also for others, for he can infect other people with his drug resistant organisms. Sir John Crofton This was said to have ended a period of prolonged global neglect. This page was last updated in August Author Annabel Kanabus.
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