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ShareTuberculosis (commonly shortened to TB) is an infection caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which most commonly affects the lungs (pulmonary TB.
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Tuberculosis is one of the most deadly and common major infectious diseases today, infecting two billion people or one-third of the world's population.
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